tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 03 06:24:30 1996
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Spoken question marks
- From: "Lord Havelock Sinister" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Spoken question marks
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:24:05 GMT
- Organization: North East Wales Institute
- Priority: normal
- Return-Receipt-To: "Lord Havelock Sinister" <[email protected]>
> From: [email protected] (Frank M Truelove)
> Egyptian and Japanese have "spoken question marks" -- ah, and ka
> respectively. Is it possible that tlhIngan has similar words?
The suffix -'a' is the closest equivalent to the above words. It is
not a dependent word, but it does convert the sentence into a closed
question.
As to the more open types of questions, there are the "W" words: nuq,
nuqneH, nuqjatlh, nuqDaq, ghorgh, 'ar, qatlh; and there is the
"n'est-ce pas?" style "tag" ending <qar'a'>
Er, apart from those candidates, that's it, really.
QojwI'
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I am the spirit in which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am Chaos.
I am alive, and I tell you that you are free." - The Goddess Eris, Principia Discordia.