tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 09 05:34:50 1995
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Re: What's wrong with "which"?
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- Subject: Re: What's wrong with "which"?
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:34:37 -0500
Something about this post botherd me, but it wasn't until just now that I
realized what it was. I don't have the original post but this is from
*ghunchu'wI'(s') reply to *yoDtargh.
On Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:15:37 -0400
Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>yoDtargh wrote:
>> [...] What do you think of using {nuqDIch}?
>> If I were to ask {tay Hovtay'vam yuQ nuqDIch?} (Which planet of this
>>star system is civilized?), an acceptable response would be {yuQ wa'DIch},
>> {yuQ cha'DIch}, etc.
>> Likewise {ghomvam qama' nuqDIch wIHoHqang?}
>> nuq DaQub?
>
>Oooh, tricky. It stretches just a teensy bit further than I'm comfortable
>with at the moment, but it's certainly unambiguous. I'm pretty sure that
>I'd have understood {nuqDIch} had I encountered it "cold".
>
>I don't object to it, but I won't start using it quite yet. The more I
>think about it, the more reasonable it sounds. This is dangerous!
>
>-- ghunchu'wI'
What bothered me is, WHY would one ask {tay Hovtay'vam yuQ nuqDIch?}?
Wouldn't the correct question be {toq Hovtay'vam yuQ nuqDIch?}?
tay(v)- be civilized; toq(v)- be inhabited
This may be an elephant and flea question, but I was overexposed to Lewis
Carroll as a child, and I need to know what YOU (the original author) mean
by the word {tay} in that sentence.
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