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on 4/12/04 9:34 PM, HandyDad at lsulky@hidden.email wrote: > --- 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. Agree. kilo - already fits gram - has to become grama or gramu because we have "gram" meaning "mail" meter - anagram to "terme" litre - anagram to "treli' Sometime I'll go thru the whole thing and submit it for approval -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/book-GesundheitDummy.htm