tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 05 12:34:14 1996
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re: "any"
- From: Dave Yeung <[email protected]>
- Subject: re: "any"
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:32:48 -0400 (EDT)
>The missing component is the type 9 verb suffix {-bogh}, meaning "which";
>it turns a sentence into a noun phrase. Thus {DIvI'Daq Hol jatlhlu'bogh}
>is a noun phrase meaning "a language which is spoken in the Federation".
>So you can now use it as the object of the verb {jatlh}, like so:
>DIvI'Daq Hol jatlhlu'bogh Dajatlh'a'?
Unfortunately, it can also be interpreted as "THE language spoken..."
i.e. "English". Which is why I tried the following:
>\ DIvI'Daq Holmey jatlhlu', wa' Dajatlh'a'?
lugh'a' mu'tlheghvam? yajlaHlaw' vay'.
Is this correct? It seems less ambiguous.
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dave yeung
{toD Duj 'oH toDuj'e'}
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