Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:11:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712242011.PAA10816@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" Sender: Lojban list From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" Subject: Re: xor questions X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1368 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 24 15:11:06 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Lee: > {do cuxna ma poi se djica ku'o le tcati ce le ckafi} > You choose what (that is desired) from the set [tea, coffee]? Answer: i mi cuxna lo selpinxe poi se djica ku'o le tcati ce le ckafi I choose a beverage that I want from the set [tea, coffee]. I think any question with {ma} will be answerable with {lo selpinxe}. But you could say: ko cuxna lo selpinxe le tcati ce le ckafi Choose a beverage from {tea, coffee}. Here you're only asking that they choose one, though. You're not asking any question. >If you don't want to specifically indicate a chooser, {cmima} >seems appropriate as well: > > {ma poi se djica cu cmima le tcati ce le ckafi} > "What (that is desired) is a member of the set [tea, coffee]? Answer: i lo selpinxe poi se djica cu cmima le tcati ce le ckafi A beverage that is desired is a member of the set [tea, coffee]. >In both cases, the relative clause can get as complex as needed >to specify further conditions (such as that only one thing >can be chosen {poi pa se djica}). No need to burden logical >operators with that chore. If we're not interested in asking a rigorous question then a simple {do djica tu'a le tcati ji le ckafi} will do. No need to complicate things with sets if the question still leaves as much margin for unwanted answers as the simple one does. co'o mi'e xorxes