From sentto-44114-20083-1054659597-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Tue Jun 03 10:03:16 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n17.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.72]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19NFBg-0006W6-00 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:03:05 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-20083-1054659597-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.98] by n17.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Jun 2003 17:00:04 -0000 X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 42933 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2003 16:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jun 2003 16:59:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.64.74) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 16:59:51 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 442A444A9; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030603094315.032a72f0@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030603094315.032a72f0@pop.east.cox.net> Message-Id: <200306031259.49849.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: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:59:49 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-archive-position: 5580 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 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 -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman. To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/