tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 28 10:20:01 1998

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Re: Ke'Plak



>There are many things that don't always completely mesh between
>English and Klingon. Look at the Question As Object mess where
>people try to use the wrong grammatical tools to build a
>relative clause. In English, the wording is very similar for
>relative clauses as it is for Sentence As Object, if you use
>question words as relative pronouns. Unfortunately, Klingon
>doesn't USE question words as relative pronouns because Klingon
>doesn't HAVE any relative pronouns.

We don't know if klingon has relative pronouns or not.
"questions" can't be used as objects, but we don't know if by coincidence
question words can act as rel pronouns, IF klingon has rel pronouns.

DloraH



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