[lojban-beginners] Re: FW: quantified number sumti, fences, and meshes

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 18 January 2007 10:00, Turniansky, Michael wrote:
> But I can't figure out how to say "the 2 2's" For example, saying (and
> this may be malglico, in which case I apologize in advance) "The 3
> sticks measured-in-meters were 2 2's, and a 3" (And yes, I know you CAN
> circumlocute this in various ways, but I was talking more directly.)
> I've tried li re boi re, but that doesn't parse.  Is there a way to do
> it?

{le ci grana cu mitre re li re jo'u li ci}. jbofi'e requires {lo'o} before 
{jo'u}, for the same reason as {ku joi}.

> B) bitmu means fence or wall, but is there a way to unambiguously state
> which is meant?  They're pretty different things.   In my story, I went
> with mudbi'u in an effort to try to hint I meant a fence, but walls can
> be made out of wood, too.  This also leads to my third question:

Would you consider a solid vertical flat structure that does not adjoin a 
roof, but is out in a field, to be a wall or a fence?

> C) Is there a brivla meaning something akin to "x1 is a
> mesh/network/2-dimensional linkage connecting a set x2"?  It might have
> come in handier in B than mudri

I've thought of {gredile} for grid or lattice, but I don't think that's what 
you want; besides, it's not selrafsi.

Pierre