Subject: RE: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:06:46 -0400 (EDT)

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 [email-masked]
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"