Re: ni, jei, perfectionism

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

Jorge to Lojbab:
> >In the forner case, what appears to me an indirect question is not really -
> >it is an English idiom, and there is a non-indirect-question that can
> >substitute.  In the second, either a different indirect question is being
> >discussed, or it is a fact that is being discussed.
>
> I was not aware that people used indirect questions as idioms to
> mean something else. Is this a commonly accepted fact, or is it
> something you just thought up for this argument?

The latter.
zo`o