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RE: indirect questions



> From: BestATN@aol.com
> 
> For "John knows who came", why not transform it to 
> "John knows the answer to the question 'Who came?' ?" and use 
> something like
> la djan. djuno le danfu be lu ma klama  
> 
> The equivalent transformation for 
> "Johns wonders who came" might be
> "John wonders what the answer to the question 'Who came?' is." or
> "John wonders about the answer to the question 'Who came?' ." 
> la djan. kucli le danfu be lu ma klama
> 
> No logic is involved, no kau, just simple transformations.
> 
> Why doesn't this work?

Snags include

1. It just passes the problem, raising the question of the logical
structure of "x is answer to question y".

2. And anyway, it doesn't work:
   "Johns wonders who came" 
   "John wonders about the answer to the question 'Who came?' ." 
   The answer to the question is Jane (or "Jane")

ergo

  John wonders (about) Jane/"Jane"

-- not a desirable inference.

--And.