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

["Turniansky, Michael" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

Can you describe in long form what exactly you mean by "2 2's" ? With  
no context I can't really tell what you want to say.

I thing that you are actually using an English idiom that means "two  
Things that are measured in some way to be 2 units", ie two sticks that
are  
both 2-meters long would be 2 2's, or two pipe fittings that are
standard size #2  or some such thing.

Although, now that I think on it, things that are just associated  
with the number two can be called 2's. Like if a teacher makes three
versions of an  exam and numbers them 1 2 and 3. She can have 2 2's
sitting her desk, waiting  to be graded.
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Well, I was originally going to say something like (teacher to
5-year-old): "Alex, the group of 3s that you have written are very neat,
but your 7 2s are crooked", but then I thought that would necessitate
getting entangled with "lerfu" or "sinxa", and not what I wanted at all,
so that's why I tried to give an example that required an actual number
as a sumti.  (Another example I decided against was with house numbers
(the numbers used for addresses on houses) -- "The 2 1s are falling off
the door".  But I felt it would fail for the same reason as the last
example.)  But surely there must be some context imaginable where we can
talk about "*li re re" analogously to le re verba just as we can talk
about re li re analogously to re le verba.
         --gejyspa