[lojban] Re: vocative questions

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- "Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
> Hmmm.  As strange as it sounds, I think {mi'epei djan} should follow the
> logical
> pattern and mean "Are you John?".  {doipei djan} should mean "Are you talking
> to
> John?", which can be pretty useful in its own right.  For instance,  I can
> see someone
> asking {doipei mi}, "You talkin' to me?". 

Right.

> I guess the more general form
> would be
> {doidai ma}.

There isn't full agreement as to whether in {la mo}, {doi ma}, etc 
ma/mo are acting as questions or as actual names. {zo ma} is not
"what am I quoting?", it is "the word {ma}", and the argument is that
names work like that too. There's some discussion about that here:
http://www.lojban.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=83

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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