Re: xor questions

["Jorge J. Llambías" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>]

>>     ko cuxna lo selpinxe le tcati ce le ckafi
>>     Choose a beverage from {tea, coffee}.
>>
>> Here you're only asking that they choose one, though. You're
>> not asking any question.
>
>What's the difference between asking a question or demanding
>that someone tell you something?  Isn't that just a grammatical
>convenience?  A shortcut way of saying "tell me..."?

Yes, probably. So questions can be seen as a special subset
of imperatives. My only point was that you could not use the
question word {ma} to get a faithful translation of "which"-questions.

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