From pycyn@aol.com Tue May 23 09:28:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13103 invoked from network); 23 May 2000 16:28:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 May 2000 16:28:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d07.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.39) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 May 2000 16:28:12 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.9.) id a.e0.4bdd128 (4532) for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 12:28:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:28:07 EDT Subject: RE:which? To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 2825 Reading over this thread, I am less and less convinced that is wrong here. Yes, you can run into a logical joker like me from time to time (who says "yes" when asked "Pie or ice cream?"), but most people do obey the Gricean rules. Further, "which" road is going to be "some kind of" road: left, scenic, macadam, passing through Dedham, ...., even called Route 66. "Supply a predicate here" means "supply a predicate that conveys to me the information I need/want at this point in the conversation." The other suggestions do not seem to work: suggest to me "Road?! I thought we were going by boat!" On and the like I have already said my piece, though is not totally inapt -- aside from being unsure what <-moi> is doing there -- except that a sumti is not always the best answer, as noted above.