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Re: Metric system



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> How shall we handle the metric system?

I'm back from my little Easter-break holiday.

I think we should try to model it after the existing international 
system as closely as possible, within the morpheme-shape rules. In 
other words, have power-of-ten prefixes that attach to basic units 
that resemble either the Western standard words "metre" and "gram" 
(and "litre", though not absolutely necessary), or that resemble the 
Mandarin words if they're a better phonological fit.
--Krawn