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>Fascinating. I keep learning more about my own ignorance.
>I thought it meant "Who are you?"


Well, more specifically, it means something like "You are what/are doing
what?" So it can mean "Who are you?" or "What are you doing?" or
anything in between. Lojban makes little distinction between doing and
being unless you intentionally add that meaning.