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More Wind from the North
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: More Wind from the North
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!iad>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 10:57:47 BST
- In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Tue, 16 Jun 1992 12:04:18 EDT <23092.9206161644@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!iad>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!pucc.Princeton.EDU!LOJBAN>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1992 12:04:18 EDT
> From: John Cowan <cowan%snark.thyrsus.com%cbmvax@NET.UU.UUNET>
>
> Ivan A Derzhanski writes:
>
> > {mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u ma klama}
> > `Who do I know that you know that comes?'
> > (`Who is the one such that I know that you know that he comes?')
> >
> > ?
> > `I know who you know that comes.'
> > (`I know who the one is such that you know that he comes.')
> >
> > ?
> > `I know that you know who comes.'
> > (`I know that you know who the one is such that he comes.')
> >
> > One of these two (I have no way to guess which) may be {mi djuno
> > ledu'u do djuno ledu'u makau klama}, but the other ...
>
> The latter. The former is "mi djuno ledu'u do djuno ledu'u
> makauxire klama" <...>.
Oh. I hadn't thought of the possibility of subscripting {kau}. Note
that this makes {ma} equivalent to {makauxici'i}.
Ivan