[lojban-beginners] Re: A Newbie's First Impressions

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:49:55PM -0700, Jon MacLeod wrote:
> > > There are perfectly valid sentences in English which can confuse
> > > native English speakers (wish I could come up with an example).
> > 
> > The mouse the cat the dog bit chased died.
>
>  Out of pure masochistic curiousity, what the **** does that
>  sentence mean?

The mouse which was chased by the cat which was bit by the dog died.

-Robin

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