"The fat, dirty dog slept in the street."
Translation:La dika, malpura hundo dormis en la strato.
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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".
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".
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This sentence, using "sur":
La dika, malpura hundo dormis sur la strato.
was accepted when I tried it. (2022-03-01)
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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."
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.
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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.
"La bela, oranĝkolora kato kaj la malbela, odoraĉa hundo". That would be the simplest way, far simpler, as I think you implied, than replacing the commas with "kaj": "La bela kaj oranĝkolora kato kaj la malbela kaj odoraĉa hundo".
