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Jorge Llamb�as, On 01/09/2012 17:49:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM, And Rosta<and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:"ca'u xi smi la xtntcsaki fa su smu crvu" To what extent is it the case that it's raining? Is it raining?Isn't nu something like "xi smi la xtntcsaki fa", "Whatever the extent that ... is the case"?
Yes, that's good. It means that nu is tautologous even in a polyvalent truthvalue system that allows for greys (sort-of or degrees thereof) -- which is better than it meaning "either definitely yes or definitely no, but not sort-of", tho you could express that meaning using "la na some-but-not-all-a li xtntcsika fi bcdo'e".
If so, then "ca'u nu crvo'e", "Is it raining, I wonder?". But also "cu" by itself should be defined as the yes/no question, with whatever predicate gives the most neutral way to ask a question, so that "cu crvo'e" is the plain "is it raining?"
Yes. --And.