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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote: > Nick Nicholas scripsit: > > <digression> > > > -- I know who killed Laura Palmer! > > -- Yeah, who? > > -- The same guy who killed Theresa Banks! > > > > No, that's not an answer; we want a name. > > I think the not-an-answer-ness of this is fact-specific. The dialogue > > -- I know where Bolshoi Olyania is. > -- Yeah, where? > -- Two kilometers from Krasny Sigorsk. > > is uncommunicative, assuming the asker doesn't know much about Russian > villages > (indeed, one can know this fact without having a clue where either Bolshoi > Olyania or Krasny Sigorsk are); whereas in > > -- I know who Cicero is. > -- Who? > > the answer "Tully" is reckoned uncommunicative (if pedantically true) > whereas > the answer "The greatest Roman orator" at least gets you some points on the > exam. All of these answers could be sufficient in some situations. > To recap your examples, we get "Dale wonders whether someone killed Laura" > vs. "Dale wonders who killed Laura". In the former case, Laura might be > killed or unkilled; in the latter, Laura's death is presumed. dy. kucli le jei catra ly. dy. kucli le su'u ce'u li'o (ru'a ka'e cusku sepi'o zo du'au) -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();