[lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 June 2003 09:45, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think the way to say it is {ci selge'u zo'u mi viska}. It's vague, too, and
> it's a shortening of the formal statement.


But then how is it better than English?



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