Re: [lojban] Question regarding {cu'e}

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:27:10PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> "modal ? cu'e is a tense/modal question (meaning it takes the place of a
> fully-specified modal/tense). Specifically, it turns the entire bridi into a
> question, and requests that the listener provide a tense/modal as an
> answer.The tense/modal response fills the place where cu'e was in the
> original bridi and the resulting bridi is the answer offered to the
> question. To indicate that there is no value that could make that bridi
> true, use {unknown}. A more extreme rejection of the presuppositions or
> implicatures involved in a question is to reply with {unknown}."
> 
> What are the appropriate {unknown}s?

Can you go to where you saw this and look at the source?  It should
be in there.

-Robin

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