From ragnarok@pobox.com Mon Jun 02 17:18:07 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.intrex.net ([209.42.192.250]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19MzV1-0002m6-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:17:59 -0700 Received: from craig [209.42.200.60] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.13) id A91C272800C8; Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:17:32 -0400 From: "Craig" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:16:33 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20030603002721.GA87210@allusion.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.200.60] X-archive-position: 5569 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ragnarok@pobox.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list >> >How do you say that in colloquial Lojban? {ci da zo'u mi viska lo gerku be >> da} >> >is formal, and {mi viska lo gerku be ci da} is wrong because a dog doesn't >> >belong to three breeds at once. >> >> {mi viska ci selgerku}? >But you saw the gerku; one cannot see a se gerku. literally speaking, you did not see the breeds.