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RE: "What I have for dinner depends on what there is in the fridge"



> > It seems to work for other indirect questions as well:
> > 
> > la djan djuno le du'u makau klama
> > John knows who came.
> > 
> > ro da poi ke'a klama zo'u la djan djuno le du'u da klama
> > For each x that came, John knows that x came.
> 
> I think you need to add
> 
> ... and for each x that did not come, John knows that x
> did not come

But does the use of "makau" really imply either? As I understood it, "la
djan. djuno le du'u makau klama" meant something like
John knows the/an answer to "Who came?"
Without implying that he knows the complete answer to that question. And,
of course, if both Bob and Alice came, that would be true even if John
only knew that Bob came.

co'omi'e xarmuj.