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Re: Klingon WOTD: ngu' (v)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ngu' (v)
• Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:15:55 -0500
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ja' Voragh:
>Note how {ngu'} is used where we would use a relative pronoun (e.g. which,
>where, what) in English:
>
>   Similarly, if a Klingon wants to know something, he or she may
>   simply demand that the information be given. For example, a common
>   way to say "Which weapon do you want?" is not as a question at all
>   but instead as a command: {nuH DaneHbogh yIngu'!} (literally,
>   "Identify the weapon that you want!").  [KGT 105]

Actually, it's the {-bogh} suffix that carries the meaning of an English
relative pronoun.  {yIngu'} merely provides a common way of making a
command out of the idea, rather than a question.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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