From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Jun 03 06:56:48 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 78127 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2003 13:56:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Jun 2003 13:56:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao03.cox.net) (68.1.17.242) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jun 2003 13:56:47 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.100.92.1]) by lakemtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030603135646.GEHU23518.lakemtao03.cox.net@bob.lojban.org> for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:56:46 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030603094315.032a72f0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:45:38 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs In-Reply-To: <200306030009.23389.phma@webjockey.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Robert LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20060 At 12:09 AM 6/3/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: >On Monday 02 June 2003 23:41, c1tk wrote: > > Does {mi viska ci jutsi frica gerku} work? It uses vague tanru, but > > since it's supposed to be colloquial (whatever that means)... > >Yes, as long as I saw three dogs. If I saw two dingos, two kuvaszok, and a >dachshund, then no. 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. -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org