From cowan@ccil.org Tue Jul 11 05:28:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12246 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 12:28:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jul 2000 12:28:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 12:28:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA22570; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:06:46 -0400 (EDT) To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: RE: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component In-Reply-To: <20000710233221.47624.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la and cusku di'e > > > > It is not {mo} that makes the difference. It is the article. > > > >Maybe the answer should just be {blabi}, then? > > The wanted answer is exactly the same sentence with {mo} > replaced by an informative brivla. The convention in answering Q-word questions, though, is to give only the replacement for the Q-word. Thus a typical question with "ma" will be answered with a sumti, and a question with "mo" will be answered with a selbri. A full bridi answer would be taken to override (parts of) the question: la lojban. mo du la loglan. What is Lojban? It is Loglan. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"