Re: [lojban] A or B, depending on C, and related issues

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/11/2001 5:06:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@ntlworld.com writes:

not "le tcima", but some abstraction -- I don't know which -- containing
"ma kau tcima" or "le tcima cu ckaji ma kau". "depnding on the weather"
= "depending on what sort of weather there is".

But the sort of weather there is is just {le tcima}, what else would it be?
Thinking of these things as "indirect questions" leads to writing them as
indirect questions without any semantic evidence that they have anything to
do with questions (or interrogatives or what have you) beyond an English
resemblance that may be totally superficial for all the evidence so far
presented.