From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Mon Nov 29 12:32:52 1999 X-Digest-Num: 297 Message-ID: <44114.297.1613.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:32:52 -0000 From: "And Rosta" Subject: RE: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1613 > From: "Jorge Llambias" > > la xarmuj cusku di'e > > >As I understood it, "la > >djan. djuno le du'u makau klama" meant something like > > John knows the/an answer to "Who came?" > >Without implying that he knows the complete answer to that question. > > I think it has to be "the" answer, the relevant one, not just > any answer, which would be too vague. If John knows that > someone came, but not who it was, then he does know an > answer to "who came?", namely "someone did", but not > the relevant answer. I think you're each half-right: it has to be *a* relevant answer. So "John" would be an adequate answer even if he was not the only one to have come. --And.