[lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, And Rosta wrote:

> Pierre:
> > How do you say that in colloquial Lojban? {ci da zo'u mi viska lo
> > gerku be da}
> > is formal, and {mi viska lo gerku be ci da} is wrong because a dog doesn't
> > belong to three breeds at once
>
> Heaven forfend that we should perpetuate the notion that the former
> is not colloquial, since overt prenexes are often unavoidable, except
> by not saying what one really means.
>
> Seriously, zo'u is *the* way. The Lojban design provides a way to
> say it, and zo'u is it. So the answer to your question is to
> make zo'u colloquial. Then it's easy to say in colloquial Lojban.


The verbosity of precise Lojban matches that of logicians' English!



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