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Re: [lojban] coi rodo - mi'e .aulun.



Jorge Llambias scripsit:

> I missed in Lojban an evidential question. I think that
> better than using {djuno} to translate his "how do you
> know?" would be to use "in what evidential mode are you
> talking?", but there isn't one. {ge'epei} sounds more
> like a therapist: "and how do you feel about that?"

"ju'a" was invented partly for this purpose.  It is the vague
evidential, so "ju'apei" is the natural evidential question.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

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