In a message dated 2/10/2002 6:19:06 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:>You may say the same thing, but the sentence you utter changes with the Why did I ever assert/agree to this? Unless this is a new feature of free-floating indirect questions, it is not a feature of regular ones. The "always true" part is peculiar to the favorite usage, after {djuno}, and is a result of the conditions on {djuno}, not on indirect questions: consider the same after {krici} or {jinvi} or {senpi}. So what we get is some selection from/all of the set of answers. Presumably only one, but we have no indication of that, nor of which one it is. Otherwise, of course, it is not a claim at all and so not joinable by a connective (the nature of an indirect question alone is obscure, since it is defined only after {du'u}). What about whatever is the subjunctive of {ro da zo'u ganai da jdima ta gi mi vecnu ta fo da}? {ro da zo'u vau lenu da jdima ta kei mi vecnu ta fo da}? |