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RE: [jboske] kau



xod:
#On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote:
#> Anyway, yes we definitely (*including* pc) agreed that lo'i du'u Qkau is the
#> set of answers.
#
#Here's one of the places where you guys always blow it. The answer to the
#question "Who shot JR?" is "Alice.", not "Alice shot JR.". Answers are
#sumties, not du'us, and this is true in English and Lojban alike.

(It is so long since JR was shot, that I can no longer remember who did it.
It was a woman, but was she really called Alice?)

We may disagree about whether an answer is a sumti or a du'u, but
certainly lo'i du'u Qkau is a set of *propositional* 'answers' like "Alice
shot JR". 

I don't know where we've blown it -- Explain!

--And.