tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 17 09:00:49 1996
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Re: KLBC: simple question
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 05:58:39 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>Savan Hoch
>I need to ask a simple question 'are you klingon?' but I am strugling
>as there does not seem to be a verb to attach 'a' to..
>tlhIngan SoH
>You are a klingon
>
>So is the question as simple as
>SoH tlhIngan
>
>Or am I missing something.
Klingon doesn't indicate questions by inverting word-order. It uses the
suffix -'a', as you noted. The "SoH" in "tlhIngan SoH," although a
pronoun, is actually functioning as a verb. See p. 68, which says that
pronouns used this way are followed, where applicable, by verb-suffixes.
So it's just "tlhIngan SoH'a'?"
Beware of applying English rules! (reversing word-order)
~mark