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[lojban-beginners] Re: Asking specific questions



On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 11:51:21 Ian Johnson wrote:
> Today I asked my lab instructor:
> So we're testing with methanol* twice*?

I would say "mi'a pilno lo metlyxalka remoi pau le cipra"
(or "...repaumoi..."). Jbofi'e glosses "pau" as "question follows", but since
it's in UI, it modifies the preceding word if it isn't at the beginning of
the sentence.

I generally think of {pau} as useful at the front of a bridi in instances when the actual question word is buried mid-bridi. And that it doesn't, by itself, make a bridi interrogative. Also, I'd put the {xu} right after the {re}. So something like : {pau mi'o re xu roi cipygau se pi'o my}.

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan