Re: [lojban-beginners] A seemingly simple sentence with layered complexity

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

On 24 February 2011 03:13, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:

No, but it is made up of only 4 sides, whose only relation to each other is their equality.

Not quite. You forgot about right angles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_%28geometry%29

So the relations that the four sides of a square have towards each other is that a pair of sides is either perpendicular to each other or parallel. More precisely, each of the four sides of the rectangle is perpendicular to two other sides which are parallel to each other and parallel to one other side.

Careful about how I worded this because there's a lot of assumptions in wording of these English sentences, one being that the person spoken to already knows that two sides can't be parallel and perpendicular to each other, etc.

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