tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 06 02:36:50 1997
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Re: Question as object
In message <971106023118_1069086239@mrin47>, [email protected] writes
>In a message dated 97-11-04 15:15:14 EST, pagh writes:
>
><< A question in Klingon is a request for information. I know of no
> evidence that Klingon uses questions for anything else. I have used
> rhetorical questions in my own writing (not, mind you, in a question as
> object), but I have never seen them in canon.
>
> How does this request for information behave when acting as a noun? It
> cannot still be requesting information from the listener; the sentence
> is no longer a question (or if it is, it is a different question). So
> does a question act like its own answer? I simply cannot accept that. >>
>
>What a lot of reader's of Klingon grammar rules as laid out in TKD 6.2.5
>appear to be overlooking is that we do not have to be concerned with what
>type of sentence is used as the object when referred to by {'e'}. The
>section clearly points out that a whole "sentence" is the object. We do not
>have to consider what words make up that sentence.
>
>Or, are those of you who arguing that a question does not seem correct as the
>object of an {'e'} referral claiming that a question is not a sentence? Why
>must you think that a parallel sentence must exist for the sentence to
>qualify as a sentence?
>
>peHruS
Referring to rhetorical questions, can you not use <qar'a'>
qelayn
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