[lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:

>
> --- Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >
> > > How do we say "I buy the same three newspapers every day"?
> > >
> > > I think maybe: {mi te vecnu ci le'e karni ca ro djedi},
> > > {mi pu viska ci le'e gerku}.
> >
> > I'm afraid I would interpret this as "I saw 3 stereotypical dogs." How
> > would you say that? cnano?
>
> The idea is "three dog types". (Again, pending Nick's work on gadri.)
>
> {ci cnano gerku} would be "three normal dogs", if that's what
> "three stereotypical dogs" means.


Yes, I was asking how you would have said "three stereotypical dogs",
assuming you wouldn't use le'e.

I understand your use of le'e here, but it's based on a nonstandard
understanding of the multiplicity of stereotypes.


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