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la camgusmis cusku di'e
Nothing's wrong with the straightforward way, but the point of indirect questions is to produce a sentence structure in which a question is embedded, and the english translation of 8.8 in the book had no such structure.
But it does! The embedded question is precisely "Is John or George at the park?" Just as in Lojban.
Whether you consider this pointful or not is a different issue, but I like them in lojban for subtlety and emphasis, because you can put kau after anything, thus effectively answering your own question in a nice little sarcastic touch.
{paunai} is useful for rhetorical questions. Indirect questions
are not the same thing.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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