From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu Aug 16 10:23:13 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@telenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 16 Aug 2001 17:23:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 36321 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2001 17:22:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 16 Aug 2001 17:22:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telenet.net) (204.97.152.225) by mta2 with SMTP; 16 Aug 2001 17:22:21 -0000 Received: from riff (ip-209-23-14-61.modem.logical.net [209.23.14.61]) by telenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06090 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:22:19 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15XQji-0000ez-00 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:15:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:15:13 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: junta [was: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful Message-ID: <20010816131513.A464@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <20010816152300.QPOC24413.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010816152300.QPOC24413.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com Sender: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:22:58AM -0400, Robert McIvor wrote: > > This seemed better than JCB's approach, which in 1986-7 included adding > > gismu for "volt" and other commonly used units, though those additions > > seem > > not to have made it into his revised Loglan 1 gismu list. > > > They may not have made it into the latest edition of Loglan 1, but > all these units in a Loglanized form remained > in the dictionary. It is much more convenient to say that such and such > newtons the number 2 than to explain it in > terms of fundamental SI units. You don't need a gismu for that. {gradrnut,nu} or {juntrnut,nu} would work, and similarly for {gradrvoltu} or {nejnrvolti}. -- Rob Speer