From - Mon Apr 22 14:54:34 1996 Message-ID: <317BCF40.1C35@ccil.org> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:26:08 -0400 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: Question on questions References: <199604221752.NAA12107@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 409 la brai,n. cusku di'e > Does "xu ma mi tavla" have any meaning in lojban? Something like "Is there someone who is talking to me? and who is that person?" > Likewise, what does "ma xu tavla" do (if anything)? Probably about the same, since setting the focus to a question word is pretty much like not setting it at all. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban