Re: [lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

[Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

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.

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