tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 21 16:47:30 1997
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RE: KLBC: Practicing with questions
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Practicing with questions
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 23:34:39 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Marian Schwartz wrote:
> ghItlh SuStel
> >There's hot debate as to whether you can say {nuq <noun>} for "which
> ><noun>."
> >Personally, I am dead set against it without confirmation by Marc Okrand
> >himself. There's always another, more Klingon way to say it, anyway. More
> >Klingon, because it doesn't require using lots of nouns. Klingon is a
> >language of verbs, use them a lot!
>
> I agree. But I think a good way would be {<noun>mey nuq}; "What of the
> <noun>s?" Hypothetical, of course, and feel free to contradict me, but I
feel
> it makes much more sense than {nuq <noun>}.
No, that's worse. For example, {paq nuq} means "what is the book?" It
shouldn't also mean "the book's what" or "which book." {nuq} is a question
word, not a pronoun.
Unfortunately, TKD just tells us it's all lumped into {chuvmey}, so that
doesn't help us . . .
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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