From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Dec 10 06:29:16 1999 X-Digest-Num: 307 Message-ID: <44114.307.1681.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:29:16 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: "what i have for dinner" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1681 And Rosta wrote: > I don't remember any discussion on Linguist about that. If you > could exercise a bit of your detective genius & locate it for me > somewhere I'd be very very grateful. No actual discussion, just Q (mine) and summary (mine). See http://linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-504.html#4 and http://linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-525.html#1 respectively. > On the other hand, it could be argued that if I wonder who came then > it does follow that "I want that (Ax) (I know whether x came)". I think this is an excessively robust kind of wondering. If I wonder who wrote the book of love (from a doo-wop song, full lyric available at http://www.fiftiesweb.com/lyrics/booklove.htm), it does not follow that I actually want to know this: my curiosity may be quite idle. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)