From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jan 18 15:50:01 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7h16-0005t4-S6 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:50:01 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7h12-0005sm-0P for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:50:00 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1744CEA90 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:49:43 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: FW: quantified number sumti, fences, and meshes Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:47:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4021D41AC@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> <647A3A20-26A2-405C-95C9-D0760D1EC3F9@mindspring.com> <22C91387-5D62-4710-ACBF-86B29EDC0F81@umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <22C91387-5D62-4710-ACBF-86B29EDC0F81@umich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701181847.01304.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 3916 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:19, Alex Martini wrote: > no'i Can someone explain the difference between JOI and JA ? {le ci grana cu mitre re li re .e li ci} means that there are three rods, and the first rod is 2 meters long (repeating it has no effect on the logic) and 3 meters long, and so are the other two. They can't all have two different lengths at once, so it's false. If they were boxes, they would be 2*2 meters at the base and 3 m high. {...li re .a li ci} would mean that they all measure 2 or 3, giving no indication that at least one of them is 2 or at least one is 3. phma