[lojban] Re: I saw three kinds of dogs

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> >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.
>>
>> {mi viska ci selgerku}?

>That's a literal translation of the English, but it doesn't work - one
can't
>see a kind of dog, but only a dog of that kind. Unless you saw the Kennel
>Club breed description, or something like that.

But people understand it EXACTLY THE SAME as they understand "I saw three
kinds of dogs" - even though you saw the dogs and not the breeds. You did
say you didn't want formalism.


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