"what i have for dinner" [resend (2)]

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@xxxxx.xxxx]

This got returned undelivered too.

> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:08:36 -0000
>
> Xarmuj:
> > > > 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.
>
> Taking exx like "what I eat for dinner depends on what is in the
> fridge", my best shot is:
>
> There is some x and there is some y such that it being the case
> that x is an answer to "what did I eat for dinner?" depends on it
> being the case that y is an answer to "what is in the fridge?"
>
> -- this seems to work, though a logical explication of "X is an
> answer to [question]" is still required, and that is not a trivial
> task.
>
> --And.
>