tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 08 11:34:27 2011
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Re: mu'tlheghvam yIlughmoH
We have no canon to support what you are suggesting, but it makes much more sense to me than anything others have suggested for years in terms of Question As Object (QyAO) constructions. Okrand kept the door open for there to be SOMETHING that worked as QAO. That's his style. He tends to want there to be possibilities he hasn't considered yet. Whenever he talked about QAO, it's generally been a response to specific suggestions that he rejected, mostly because people have tried to use {'e'} to represent the answer to the question instead of the question itself; they've been trying to use QAO as an alternative means of building a relative clause without using {-bogh}. The result sometimes makes sense in English, but it never makes sense in Klingon.
What you are suggesting does make sense in Klingon, to my ear, anyway. Others may think differently.
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
On Jan 8, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Ruben Molina wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:33 AM, lojmIt tI'wI'nuv
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Replacing the question mark with a comma doesn't stop {nuq 'oH bomvam 'o'megh'e'} from being a question. qarbe'. You can't put any question words or interrogative constructions in the first sentence of a Sentence As Object construction with 'e' or net, unless the pronoun actually represents the question and not it's answer.
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> mu'tlheghwIj DamughHa' 'e' vIHar. {nuq 'oH bomvam 'o'megh'e'} 'oSbej {'e'}
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> <what is the ending of this song? I'm not yet able to tell that (the
> question)> 'oS {nuq 'oH bomvam 'o'megh'e', wej 'e' vIjanglaH.} ('e'
> vIghItlh vIneHbe') 'ach <what is the ending of this song? I'm not yet
> able to answer that (the question)> 'oS {nuq 'oH bomvam 'o'megh'e',
> wej 'e' vIjanglaH.} je ('e' vIghItlh vIneHbe') .
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> <what is the ending of this song? I'm not yet able to answer that (the
> question)> qar'a'
> ruben
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