From sentto-44114-20094-1054681901-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Tue Jun 03 16:12:30 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n8.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.92]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19NKx4-0001Wn-01 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:12:22 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-20094-1054681901-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.96] by n8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Jun 2003 23:11:51 -0000 X-Sender: oskar2379@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 24678 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2003 23:11:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jun 2003 23:11:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.93) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 23:11:40 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.188] by n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Jun 2003 23:09:25 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200306022000.16883.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "oskar2379" X-Originating-IP: 68.168.163.103 X-Yahoo-Profile: oskar2379 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: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:09:24 -0000 Subject: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 5591 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: oskar2379@hotmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat 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. How could the first be right and the second not? They both mean "I see dogs of three breeds". The book made it seem like prenexes only exist to allow you to declare variables in the beginning and use them multiple times and/or in a different order in the main bridi. It never said anything the entire meaning changing when the prenex is dropped... ------------------------ 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/