[lojban-beginners] .i preti lo preti

[Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com>]

Firstly, is the subject valid?  I have a question about questions.
Secondly, would {.i di'e preti lo preti} also worked?
Thirdly, could {preti preti} be used as a tanru to mean {preti be lo preti}, and would that be "x1 is a question about questions by questioner x3 to audience x4"?

Fourthly, the actual question:

In English, the following exchange occurs with some regularity:

"What's up?"
"Nothing."

The "nothing" in this context is kinda like {zo'e}, right?  It is a response to the question that gives no additional information.

{.i do mo}
{co'e}

might be an equivalent exchange, right?

But what if the question is {do djica ma}?
A response that confers no information would be {zo'e}.

What about (an admittedly contrived) {do djica ma ma}?
You'd need to respond {zo'e zo'e}, right?

So is there a single response that covers all those possibilities?
{su}?  I don't quite like that.

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          Alex R

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