Re: [bpfk] Re: O HAI I FIXT UR LODGEBANZ

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

2010/10/15 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:

> What is strange is when a question is embedded in a subordinate bridi.
> I'm pretty sure Lojban must violate some language universal there, but
> I don't really know enough about it to be sure, it's just a feeling.

Not at all.  English (unlike Chinese, Turkish, and Lojban) fronts its
question words, and can do so from arbitrarily deep in the
clause-tree:

Who was it you said John saw (t) walking with Mary?
Who was it you said George heard John saw (t) walking with Mary?
...

where "(t)" marks the "trace", the point from which the question-word
was fronted.

Or, in the mood of disbelief (which is in the Chinese or Lojban style
for normal questions):

You said John saw WHO walking with Mary??!
You said George heard John saw WHO walking with Mary??!
...

> So what you are saying is that you support the second "jei":
>
>       jei ... = se jetlai lo du'u ...
>
> Do I understand you correctly? That one cannot be used as the x2 of djuno.

That sounds right to me.

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