Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

["oskar2379" <oskar2379@hotmail.com>]

--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@w...> wrote:
> 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.

How could the first be right and the second not? They both mean "I 
see dogs of three breeds". The book made it seem like prenexes only 
exist to allow you to declare variables in the beginning and use them 
multiple times and/or in a different order in the main bridi. It 
never said anything the entire meaning changing when the prenex is 
dropped...