Re: Indirect questions

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

Lojbab:
> Chiming in on a thread I haven't followed:
> >Do you mean something like:
> >
> >    le nu mi cusku lu go'i li'u cu danfu lu xu do badri li'u
> >    My saying "I am" is an answer to "Are you sad?".
> >
> >Or do you mean:
> >
> >    le mi se cusku cu danfu lu xu do badri li'u
> >    What I said is an answer to "Are you sad?".
>
> le nu mi cusku lu go'i li'u cu spuda/danfu da terpreti fi lu xu do badri li'u
> My saying "I am" is an answer to someone asking "Are you sad?"
>
> le mi se cusku cu danfu lu xu do badri li'u poi preti fi da
> What I said is an answer to "Are you sad?", asked by someone (of me).

It's quite a helpful chiming in. We can probably agree about
what counts as a spuda be lo nu preti, but it's less clear
what counts as a danfu, and even less clear how this ultimately
helps in forming a logically explicit paraphrase of indirect
questions.

--And