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Re: [lojban] Q-kau 2002: halfway towards a solution/resolution


la and cusku di'e


(A) Ignoring current usage, what would be the best way to express in
Lojban an incomplete proposition and its unbound variables? My best
shot would be a du'u clause containing "tu'o da" for unbound variables.


That covers propositions that are incomplete in that they are
missing a sumti, but Q-kau covers a larger range of incomplete
propositions, with xukau, xokau, jikau, mokau, etc.


The relationship between Q-word with kau and Q-word without kau would
then be a relatively idiomatic one, in that a sentence with Q-word without
kau would be an abbreviation of a more complex sentence in which the
Q-words are with kau. Is this sufficiently 'lojbanic'?


Probably it would have been more lojbanic to use the unmarked
form for the simple incomplete sentence, and use a marked form
(e.g. {mapau}) for the question. But Lojban is not as lojbanic
as it should be...

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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