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Re: Is your friend a hero or a fool?

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Is your friend a hero or a fool?
• Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:07:14 -0500
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'ISqu' wrote:
>DIvI' Hol jatlhtaHvIS vay' ghellaH:
>
>    "Is your friend a hero or a fool?"
>
>tlhIngan Hol lo'taHvIS vay' jatlhlaH:
>
>    <<Sub ghaH'a' juplI''e' pagh qoH ghaH'a'?>>

"Is your friend a hero or is he a fool?"

>jatlhlaH je:
>
>    <<Sub qoH ghap ghaH'a' juplI''e'?>>

"Is your friend a hero or a fool?"

This is merely the interrogative form of of:

   Sub qoH ghap ghaH juplI''e'.
   Your friend is (either) a hero or a fool.

We have examples:

   HIq qIj reghuluS 'Iw HIq ghap jab.
   They serve Black Ale or Regulan bloodwine. CK

   naQ megh'an 'er'In ghap yI'uch.
   naQ 'er'In megh'an ghap yI'uch.
   Grasp either end of the stick.
   ("grasp the end or the other end of the stick") (HQ 12.2)

>QaQlaw' cha' mu'tlheghvam 'ach chaq qaq wa'.  qaqwI' tu'lu'chugh yIngu'.

I understand your hesitation, but the second one is normal (though I think 
the first is a little stronger rhetorically).



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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