[lojban] Re: ibaubo

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Monday 23 August 2004 14:45, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:39:35AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > le tirxu cu catra le gerku .ibaubo le te lisri na ka'e kancu
>
>     The tiger(s) kill(ed) the dog(s).  In language: the storyteller
>     can't count.
>
> "the storryteller can't count" isn't a language.  I might generously
> accept it as a description of a (class of) language(s), but that seems
> an odd usage.

AFAICT it was the jaguar, for which I don't have a specific word, and I'm not 
sure the panther was the same species I normally mean by panther. The story 
is in Pirahã and is in the end of the PDF file.

phma
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