Re: indirect questions

[Pycyn@aol.com]

The transformation of an indirect question into someting about the answer to 
a direct question won't work because the knower/wonderer/whatever may have no 
attitude toward/understanding of the direct question involved.  If John is a 
monlingual speaker of Chinese, he knows nothing of "Who went to the party?," 
an English question, and so doesn't even wonder about its answer.  There are 
ways to solve this problem, which, however, generate new problems of a 
similar but increasing complex sort, leading to an eternal regress of 
languages.
pc