From sentto-44114-20073-1054599579-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Mon Jun 02 17:20:19 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.102]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19MzX9-0002ni-00 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:20:11 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-20073-1054599579-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.98] by n34.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Jun 2003 00:19:40 -0000 X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 81939 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2003 00:19:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jun 2003 00:19:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 00:19:39 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1CD3144A9; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <200306022019.37332.phma@webjockey.net> From: Pierre Abbat MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:19:37 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 5570 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Monday 02 June 2003 20:04, Craig wrote: > >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}? That's a literal translation of the English, but it doesn't work - one can't see a kind of dog, but only a dog of that kind. Unless you saw the Kennel Club breed description, or something like that. phma ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/GSaulB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/