tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 25 20:41:56 1997
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RE: KLBC: What if I'm lost
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: What if I'm lost
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 03:00:49 UT
jatlh qoror:
> Message text written by "David Trimboli"
> >Then you can ask things like
>
> chay' vaS'a'Daq jIjaH?
> How do I get to the Great Hall?<
>
> You know, it occurs to me that the word "how" in this case is sort of
> provincial. You know *how* you're going to get there (transporter, some
> conveyance maybe); the question is *where.*
This sort of thing was brought up a couple of months ago, and I believe we
found that canon has roughly equal use of the two sorts of "how."
You want something else?
jIHvaD vaS'a'Daq muDevbogh He yIngu'.
Identify the route which leads me to the Great Hall.
If you have a problem with this one, I could come up with half a dozen other
ways to say it, too. {{:-)
> qaStaHvIS vatlh DIS poH cha'maH vaghDIch, motlh DaqDaj Sovlu'.
vatlh DIS poH cha'maH *vagh*DIch? <loSDIch> bIjatlh 'e' DaHech, qar'a'?
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