From noras@lojban.org Thu Jun 05 14:50:12 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net ([68.1.17.244]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19O2cQ-0006Vo-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 14:49:58 -0700 Received: from nora.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030605214927.CCYN8337.lakemtao01.cox.net@nora.lojban.org> for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:49:27 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030605174740.02e312c0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: noras@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:49:02 -0400 To: lojban-list@lojban.org From: Nora LeChevalier Subject: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs In-Reply-To: <200306031259.49849.phma@webjockey.net> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030603094315.032a72f0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20030603094315.032a72f0@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-archive-position: 5615 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: noras@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list At 12:59 PM 6/3/03 -0400, Pierre wrote: >On Tuesday 03 June 2003 09:45, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > > If we cannot assume that there were three things seen, how about the simple > > > > mi viska lu'e ci selgerku > > > > I think the issue here is that the English itself is vague and we aren't > > all that sure what we are tryingt o say. Once we know, saying it in Lojban > > isn't necessarily difficult. > >I think the way to say it is {ci selge'u zo'u mi viska}. It's vague, too, and >it's a shortening of the formal statement. > >phma pei lu mi viska le seke cimei se gerku li'u -- mi'e noras noras@lojban.org Nora LeChevalier