tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 06 23:43:33 2003
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Re: "How is your food?" "What book?"
I understand those translations (by the way, when using /'oH/ as your defining verb you need the suffix /-'e'/ attached to the last noun), and yes they are just fine, but I'm trying to start a discussion about simple questions involving only one element...the noun. /chay' 'oH SojlIj/, literally means, "your food is how?" I was wondering if that version is ungramatical when dealing with question sentences. Thanks for your input!!
[email protected] wrote:For "What book?" doesn't "Where is the book" mean the same thing, in that case its
easy... /nuqDaq oH' paq?/.
and for "How's the food?" What about /Soj QaQ qar'a'?/ I think this is literally, "The food
is good isn't that so?" It sounds a little threatening, but I guess a Klingon would take it as
an insult if the food wasn't good!
On 6 Jul 2003 at 14:07, Klingon Warrior wrote:
> I'd like to know if I'm saying these two sentences correctly...
> "How is your food?" /chay' 'oH SojlIj?/
> "What book?" (As if someone asked me to grab a book for them and I
> just don't see one to grab) /nuq paq?/ For the second sentence, I
> know that can't be right (at least I think). Sure seems like there
> should be a verb in there, but I don't know how to incorporate one in.
> I can ask other questions using the word /nuq/, but with just simple
> nouns, I'm lost. Thank you!
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> Klingon Warrior
> taHjaj wo'!
> Darren M. Slade
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