"The fat, dirty dog slept in the street."

Translation: La dika, malpura hundo dormis en la strato.

[BradfordBowman]

Should "sur" be accepted as a preposition in place of "en" here? I thought that "sur la strato" was equivalent to English's "in the street". See John C. Wells' dictionary. Also in vortaro.net, an example from Zamenhof: "oni promenas sur la strato".

[Druif]

Yes, I agree. In Esperanto we have to use the prepositions literally. The dog is nog "in" the street, the dog is "on" the street. Hence "sur la strato".

[hmalladi]

Kompatinda hundo :(

[ActualGoat]

It definitely should be sur la strato.

[Raztastic]

Ĉi tiu nun estas akceptita respondo.

[hellomidnight]

This made me think of The Colour Purple:

"You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need."

[daguipa]

To coordinate two adjectives with a comma is something that the English language does, but not every language. I think that the translation with "kaj" should be accepted since it is a more international and less "anglified" solution.

[HuckleSmothered]

What would we do for when we need to talk about two nouns with two adjectives each. The pretty, orange cat and the ugly, smelly dog, for instance. I imagine the kaj's would get confusing.