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

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:15:50PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>

> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+Tense
>
> The source is the same. "{unknown}".

Looking at the history, looks like lindar put in ???, and you put in
{unknown} to replace it.  I have no idea what lindar had in mind.
{zi'o} would certainly fill the first slot, and {na'i} the second,
but I don't know why we would mention {na'i} in this definition.

-Robin

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BTW, thanks for reminding me about the history. I had completely forgotten that feature.

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