From phma@oltronics.net Tue Aug 14 14:11:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 21:11:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 73397 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 21:11:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 21:11:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.84) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 21:10:50 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2589F3C4BF; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:10:35 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] du, speed, units Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:10:34 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010814152454.A1415@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010814152454.A1415@twcny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108141710340C.02761@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Tuesday 14 August 2001 15:24, Rob Speer wrote: > These seemingly unrelated comments gave me an idea. One of the "holes" in > Lojban's vocabulary thus far seems to be words for mixed units - we can > describe something's length in meters or its duration in seconds, but we > can't describe speed in meters per second. > > When we say "meters per second", we mean that for the speed in question a > certain number of meters corresponds to a certain number of seconds. So how > about "meters per second" -> {mitre du snidu} -> {tredubysnidu}? (Or > {tredunsnidu} - is there a difference?) > > And then there's the question of multiplying units... I don't think simply > running the rafsi for units together would work very well - perhaps they > could be linked with {jol}. (Or {pi'i}, though that seems ugly to me.) And > would {reltre} be a square meter? trepabysnidu kurtre kubmitre ki'orgratrepabykursnidu mu'omi'e pier.