Re: [lojban] I saw three kinds of dogs

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Monday 02 June 2003 21:25, And Rosta wrote:
> 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.

What I'm thinking is {ci da zo'u mi viska lo gerku}, or the slightly more 
wordy {ci selge'u zo'u mi viska lo gerku}. I have a similar construction in a 
partially written article about flatfishes: {so'a se mlafi'e pa mlana zo'u 
so'a mlafi'e cu limna fi'o galtu}.

phma
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