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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] ".i xu kau" vs ".i kau"
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> The definition above, then, leads me to think
> that ".i kau ..." would be one whole sentence being marked as what is
> being indirectly questioned. How would that be different from ".i xu
> kau ..."?

It has been suggested that "kau" should work like "pau", so that an
initial "kau" is a warning that an indirect question is coming (and
you don't need to mark the question word as indirect in that case):

http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners/browse_thread/thread/99d6142a938b4b7

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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