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Re: [lojban] A or B, depending on C, and related issues
la pycyn cusku di'e
In
the case of "know," what seems to be involved is a correct answer to the
question, in the case of "wonder" a range of possible answers,
Couldn't "wonder" be thought of as "interested/curious to know",
or something like that, so that it gets reduced to the "know" case?
in "What's for
dinner depends on what's in the fridge" there seem to be answers to two
questions and the correlations between them,
This one is trickier because it involves two of them, but I think
often we are also unnecessarily complicating matters by dealing with
the uncertainty of the future. Maybe a more simple case is: "In those days,
(in each of those days, let's say) what we had for dinner
depended on what was in the fridge". For each day there is one
answer to each question, and the claim is that the one situation
referred to in the first answer was a result of the one situation
referred to in the second.
in "The magic formula changed
how tall I am" what is involved is just my height, not the answer to any
question but the topic of it.
In Lojban terms, this is a property. For properties, the answer can
be different for each holder of the property. In this case, me and
my former self.
<What I wear depends on (results from) where I go.>
Surely this includes (in some not very clear sense) "If I go to a formal
party, I will wear a tux" and "If I go camping, I will wear rough clothing"
and "If I go to a nudist beach, I will wear damn-all" Each first part is
an
"answer" to the "question" "Where go I?" and each second to the question
"What wear I?" and the "if then"s show appropriate dependencies -- with
probably lots more cases to consider. as you have pointed out, the
"indirect
question" parts just cover the case without giving the details, as does "my
apparel varies with my destination." I would say exactly the same way, in
fact, which leaves the question of what all this has to do with questions.
So how do you say "my apparel varies with my destination" in Lojban?
I don't see an easy way without {kau}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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