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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> 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?

I don't think there is any "zi'o" equivalent for tags, which I guess
is what the first one is driving at.

For the second one you just say "na'i", like you would do with any
question or statement with unwarranted presuppositions.

("cu'e" is a pointless word with no use whatsoever, BTW, just in case
you wanted my opinion on that.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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