tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 21 13:21:29 1998
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Re: chay' jura'
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chay' jura'
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:27:21 -0400
ghItlh charghwI':
>I've always believed that {chay'} is just as slippery in
>meaning as the English "how", except that it doesn't work as a
>relative pronoun. By that, I mean that the question, "chay'
>*Carnagie* vaSDaq jIpaw?" could be answered either with
>directions on where to drive, or with the classic, "yIqeq,
>yIqeq, yIqeq."
>
>The function that {chay'} definitely does NOT fulfill in
>Klingon is the relative pronoun, as in "I don't know how to get
>to Carnagie Hall." {chay'} is a question word and that is the
>beginning and end of what it can do. "...how to get to Carnagie
>Hall" is not a question. For that function, you need a noun in
>Klingon, like {mIw}, {He}, {Quv}, etc.
*Carnegie* vaSDaq jImuchpu'mo' jIjanglaHchu'.
chay' *Carnegie* vaSDaq jIpaw?
Huch yap yInobchugh, Da*rent*laH...
Qermaq