On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Ian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > So {jei} is exactly identical to {du'u xukau}? Or is there a semantic > difference?
There are two candidate meanings for "jei". Nobody really knows which one is the "correct" one. One of the meanings is "du'u xukau", i.e. it basically corresponds to the indirect question "whether". The other candidate meaning is "the truth value of". "jei" is not used much, since we already have "du'u xukau" for "whether", and "the truth value of" is not something that comes up often in conversation. mu'o mi'e xorxes
