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

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

  I think the original question was about the selma'o (because of the
capitals).  If I am not mistaken (and I probably am, I'm only a novice,
not lo jbijbejbo) JA cmavo (ja, je, and so forth) can only be used
between terms in a tanru, whereas JOI can be used there, or between
sumti.  (There are probably other subtleties that I am missing, but I
think that's one difference).

            --gejyspa


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

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