Re: [lojban] Re: What does "anyway" mean anyway?

["Theodore Reed" <ted.reed@gmail.com>]

On 5/19/06, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@kli.org> wrote:

Hmm... Were I to translate this into Hebrew, I would use a word that
means something like "at all".  Maybe the meaning is "whose line is it,
if it's anyone's at all."  Consider that "anyway" added to a yes/no
question doesn't do this: "is he coming anyway?" is a normal question
with "anyway" modifying the conditions under which he might come.  So
maybe there's something like "is this question really even valid to
start with?  Should you be answering it with {na'i}?"

Whatever.  Stuff to ponder.

"Is he coming anyway?" indicates to me that there are adverse conditions for his coming, and the questioner wants to know if he will come despite the conditions. This interpretation doesn't seem to work with the "Whose Line" bit, however.

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