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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote: > 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?) I've forgotten too -- I made Alice up! > 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". What's a propositional answer? Do you mean a filled repeat of the original question, such as "Alice shot JR."? Fine, but then let's stop chanting the mantra that du'u makau zukte is the/an answer to the question. It's not an answer, it's a du'u statement which happens to answer the question -- because it *contains* the answer. If that's all we mean, then makau is just like ko'a if we ease up a bit on the demand that every ko'a must be assigned with goi, and allow them to be assigned operationally. Which is not a bad idea! -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.