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Re: a little bit pregnant?

De'vID jonwI' ([email protected])



SuStel:
>    chay' jIjatlhlaH "It's a liquid metal"?
>    "It's a liquid metal" chay' jIjatlhlaH?
>
>The quotation is not the object of /jatlh/.
>
>Even in English quotations are set apart (though not in the same way as in
>Klingon):
>
>    How can I say, "It's a liquid metal"?

Can <-laH> be used in this way?  It seems that the question is
really intended to ask "How *do* I say...?" rather than "How
am I *able* to say...?".  The way "can" is used in everyday speech
in English is a bit sloppy.

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De'vID

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