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Lojbab:
> At 06:33 PM 10/11/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >la pycyn cusku di'e
> > >Where is a {du'u xukau} sense of {jei} espoused in
> > >CLL
> >
> >6.3) mi ba jdice le jei
> > la djordj. cu zekri gasnu [kei]
> > I [future] decide the truth-value of
> > (George being-a-(crime doer)).
> > I will decide whether George is a criminal.
> >
> >Deciding a truth value is either meaningless or useless.
>
> I thought we decided long ago that this was merely a sumti-raising error
> that requires a tu'a on the "le jei" because the underlying question is
> "ledu'u makau du lejei ..."
>
> People have admitted that there were sumti-raising errors in some of the
> CLL examples.
That's right. But {jei} was formerly used to mean "whether", and that
usage was carried on into CLL.
--And.