Subject: Re: junta [was: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:19:29

la pier cusku di'e

>The gismu for forming unit fu'ivla is {klani}. {gradu} would give the wrong
>place structure. I've already seen {klanrniutoni}.

Yes. I think of gradu as the missing link in the multiplier series:

...
megdo - x1 is 10**6 of x2 in dimension x3
kilto - x1 is 10**3 of x2 in dimension x3
xecto - x1 is 10**2 of x2 in dimension x3
dekto - x1 is 10**1 of x2 in dimension x3
gradu - x1 is 10**0 of x2 in dimension x3
decti - x1 is 10**-1 of x2 in dimension x3
centi - x1 is 10**-2 of x2 in dimension x3
milti - x1 is 10**-3 of x2 in dimension x3
mikri - x1 is 10**-6 of x2 in dimension x3
...

If we want a word that means "x1 is x2 newtons in direction x3"
it makes more sense to base it on {klani}, which has the place
structure of all the measure words.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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