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Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] ".i xu kau" vs ".i kau"
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On Sunday 30 October 2011 09:33:14 Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote:
> 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):

"mi djuno lo du'u kau ko'a gerku gi'i mlatu" makes sense. But if a sentence=
=20
beginning ".i kau" is at top level, it can't be an indirect question. I=20
consider such sentences as ".i kau mi klama le zarci" as syntactically=20
correct but nonsense, like "te .u" or "du ra'o".

Pierre
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Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

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