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Re: Disambiguation of arg ument reference

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, October 10, 2002, 11:08
Josh Roth scripsit:

> Multiple items can be questioned in one sentence ... imagine someone's being > told what 5 different people are reading, and gets confused - they may then > ask "Ok, who's reading what?" If I see someone with a dozen hamburgers and > hot dogs, and ketchup and mustard, I may ask, "What are you putting on what?" > It's not the most common thing, but it is acceptable for me.
Me too. ObConlang: Lojban specifically handles this case of multiple questions, and multiple answers too: A. ma klama ma ma What is-going to-what from-what? B. mi le zdani le zarci I, the home, the marketplace -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Unified Gaelic in Cyrillic script! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang