Why not, given that it is built on 'ie'?

Gee, I hope someone can do better than xorxes.

From:= Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 5:39:45 PM<= br>Subject: Re: [lojban] T= ime for the perenial other-centric-.ui conversation

No. {.iepei} Does not refer to the speaker at all.

.xorxes. describes this much better than I could.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

Okay, the "I agree. How do you feel about that? With what = intensity?" A better question, but surely the answer will not be 'iec= ai' (nor should it be -- but then that shouldn't have been the question eit= her).

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That is what the definition of {pei} is.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:26 PM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

That may be what you (think you) are doing, but it is not what you sai= d.

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No, it's asking the listener how much the listener agrees.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

Right, it asking the listener how much the speaker agrees. And t= hat is a proper question, not some fiddle-faddle off in CAI. But a re= markably dumb question in most contexts. It would be better to get a = nice snappy way of saying "how much in proper bridi form, rather than the r= unaround not required, so that one could simply say 'do togni ---?' M= aybe that is 'pei' but then it is probably in the wrong selma'o.

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Okay, no. Just no. It's "You agree how much?" or "How much do you = agree?" It is asking a question of the listener. Every other question word = in Lojban is asking the LISTENER, not the speaker. {pei} is no different in= that respect.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

Well, I didn't say where the idiom strarted but, as I suspected. appar= ently it is with 'pei'. 'ie' is not an it, but a mark of agreement. t= he "yes" of my version. 'pei' is Lord knows what,. but apparently a questio= n about some of the things that fall into UI and the like. But what k= ind of a question i9s it? Not a "yes/no" clearly, so an identity question.&= nbsp; But it doesn't look like an identity question (or a yes/no one, for t= hat matter) and something that performs a linguistic function that it is no= t designed to do is an idiom. 'pei' is in CAI (I assume), a rough marker of= intensity of emotion (or whatever in the flotsam and jetsam of discursives= ). The only discursive here is one about MY agreement -- it can't be = anyone else's. So, the whole means "I agree, how much?" or, presumabl= y, "How much do I agree?" You don't come into it at all. Now, I= also think that using a CAT to ask a factual question is a mistake, but that doesn't affect the confusion that is involved in this idiom (prop= agated, it seems, from the core).

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Sent: Mon, November = 29, 2010 1:41:44 PM=20

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No, by definition. No idiom needed. Must I quote the definition of {pe= i} again?

"pei - CAI - emotion ? - attitudinal: attitudinal question= ; how do you feel about it? with what intensity?"

In the case of {.iepei}, the "it" is "agreement": {.iepei} =3D "how do= you feel about agreement? with what intensity?" =3D "Do you agree, and&nbs= p;with what intensity do you (dis)agree?"

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:36 PM, John E Cliffor= d <kali9putra@= yahoo.com> wrote:

Idiomatically, yes; literally, more like what I said. And, as I = have noted, idioms are anti-logical in the appropriate sense, since there i= s no mechanical rule to get them back to there logical form.

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

But whether 'iepe= i' is a legitimate question is not thereby decided; it means "Yes, innit"

No, it means, "Do you agree, and with what intensity do you (dis)= agree?"

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