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Re: To know and to understand

"Konrad Den Ende" wrote ...
> How is that solved in Japanese? The example in the file was
> -"すみません、ひびや道理は　どこですか?"
> -"分かりません."
> How does the questioner know that the questionee:
> a) understood the question but didn't know the answer
> alternatively
> b) didn't understand the question
> ?

Hmm, if the answerer has a very bad accent and doesn't look
Japanese then he means 'b', otherwise I guess he means 'a'. ;-)

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