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Nick:
> I assume that {kau} always implies {djuno} or
> something like that somewhere along the line,
We had assembled a testcase corpus of non-djuno-based 'indirect
questions'. From memory, these would include:
What the last digit of my phone number is has changed.
What I eat depends on what's in the fridge.
John differs from Jane in how tall they are.
Perhaps Jorge can augment this list without me having to brave
my archives.
I am not convinced that these exx warrant Qkau, but at the least
they are handled in English by means of interrogative clauses
and need some way to be expressed in Lojban.
On the question of the meaning of {kau}, I think I prefer to sit
on the sidelines, since my feeling is that from a Formalist
perspective we'd be better of ditching it. That ain't going to
happen, but I'd be happy to make a gift to the Naturalists of
kau.
--And.