Re: [jboske] kau, take 2

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> Nick Nicholas scripsit:
>
> <digression>
>
> > -- I know who killed Laura Palmer!
> > -- Yeah, who?
> > -- The same guy who killed Theresa Banks!
> >
> > No, that's not an answer; we want a name.
>
> I think the not-an-answer-ness of this is fact-specific. The dialogue
>
> -- I know where Bolshoi Olyania is.
> -- Yeah, where?
> -- Two kilometers from Krasny Sigorsk.
>
> is uncommunicative, assuming the asker doesn't know much about Russian
> villages
> (indeed, one can know this fact without having a clue where either Bolshoi
> Olyania or Krasny Sigorsk are); whereas in
>
> -- I know who Cicero is.
> -- Who?
>
> the answer "Tully" is reckoned uncommunicative (if pedantically true)
> whereas
> the answer "The greatest Roman orator" at least gets you some points on the
> exam.


All of these answers could be sufficient in some situations.



> To recap your examples, we get "Dale wonders whether someone killed Laura"
> vs. "Dale wonders who killed Laura". In the former case, Laura might be
> killed or unkilled; in the latter, Laura's death is presumed.


dy. kucli le jei catra ly.
dy. kucli le su'u ce'u li'o

(ru'a ka'e cusku sepi'o zo du'au)



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