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Re: [lojban] "Any" and {ro}
Am 15.08.2012 16:05, schrieb tijlan:
That wouldn't work consistently with {du'u}. According to that
interpretation, one would have
do djuno lo du'u mi citka ma kau
You know that I eat anything.
do djuno lo du'u mi djica lo nu klama ma kau
You know that I want to go wherever
Yes, the first example I gave isn't good. The point of this ma kau is
that it appears outside of an abstraction, but of course what you show
is still a problem. The usage of that ma kau would be limited to outside
of abstractions.
Am 15.08.2012 16:26, schrieb John E Clifford:
Well, {ma kau} marks an indirect question and in this usage there
seems to be nothing either indirect or a question.
Well, I'm not sure that's true. Many natlangs use a Wh-question word for
this construction. French has n'importe ou/quoi/qui etc, English has
whatever/wherever, German has wo auch immer, wer auch immer, sonstwo...
So maybe there really is a hint of a question there, if just in that the
speaker indirectly talks about the possible answer without saying what
it is.
For the other meanings of any, su'o/ro/no is still the way to go, but I
don't think anybody argues with that anyway.
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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