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




On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Cortesi wrote:

OK, beginner's list question,

On Jan 18, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:

"The 3 sticks measured-in-meters were 2 2's, and a 3"
{le ci grana cu mitre re li re jo'u li ci}

Why does not {li ci} break off (following the jo'u comma) to become the x3 of mitre?
What tells me the whole {re li re jo'u li ci} is one sumti?

dc

Not 100% sure, but j'ou says that the selbri's not over yet. {jo'u} is in selma'o JOI, which joins two things, that would otherwise be separate selbri, into one position.

An example like something you might have seen is {le ckafi joi le tcati cu xamgu} "The coffee, mixed with the tea, is good". zo'o Although in real life, it probably isn't. Here {joi} is doing a similar thing as {jo'u} did above.

ni'o If you take a look at these in jbofi'e, you will need to add an extra terminator because the parser "doesn't get it" otherwise. Use {lo'o} before {jo'u} in the first case, and {ku} before {joi} in the second. This is because things in JOI can join two kinds of things, and the parser doesn't know which kind you're trying to do.

no'i Can someone explain the difference between JOI and JA ?

mu'o mi'e .aleks.