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

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

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