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xorxes: > la and cusku di'e > > >Is there a difference between A and B? > > > >A. X knows that whatever colour of box Z needs, Y knows that > > Z needs a box of that colour > >B. Whatever colour of box Z needs, X knows that Y knows that > > Z needs a box of that colour > > I'm not sure. In A it is clear that X need not know what the > colour is, and it seems to be strongly implied that X does > not know. In B, it seems that X too must know what the colour > is. Suppose Z needs a red box. Then B means that X knows that > Y knows that Z needs a red box, and that would seem to require > X too to know that Z needs a red box > > >If there is, which does C mean? > > > >C. X knows that Y knows what colour of box Z needs > > In English, I would say it means A. X need not know what the > colour is > > >I'm not thinking clearly, but I'm wondering whether it is > >really always the case that a makau will be paraphrasable by > >a main clause wh-ever > > It would seem from this example that it can be paraphrased with > a wh-ever in the next outer clause, but not further than that > That is if Lojban is like English in this, which is not > necessarily the case given that Lojban's questions are somewhat > different than English, as they can be embedded as much as you > like How are Lojban questions different from English? I'd have thought questions, qua meanings rather than words, ought to be independent of the particular language. --And.