tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 30 04:57:32 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDIch
- From: "Seruq" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDIch
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:57:16 -0600
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> > > >{puH DujlIj 'arDIch 'oH Dochvam'e'?}
> > >
> > > How many cars have you had?
> > > Is this your first car?
> >
> >Is this your first? No.
> >Is this your second? No.
> >Is this your third? No.
> >Is this your fourth? ....
> >
> >Hopefully they didn't have too many or this could take a while.
>
> Either because we know English lacks the necessary construction, or
> because of the cooperative property of conversation, people answer
> this question by enumerating their past cars, unless they are being
> obstructionist.
Habit from military and security clearance. Answer the question that was asked.
Being direct is also a Klingon trait.
Asking how many of something one has, or if it is their first, is not asking the number in sequence
of one of those items.
> Wait, you're a native English speaker. Why are you asking this? I was
> just answering for the Japanese speaker.
English? Japanese? I thought we were discussing tlhIngan Hol.
> >If 'arDIch doesn't work, how about nuqDIch?
>
> Someone had an insurmountable problem with 'arDIch? I missed that one.
Without canon support, I saw others expressing uncertainty and offering alternative ways to ask the
question. I was offering another option, an alternative that changes only one word instead of the
whole sentence.
I have been quite tired this week, so if I missed the intent of this thread, disregard my posts. I
thought the thread was discussing the possible uses of the non-canon ['arDIch].
- DloraH
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