tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 16 21:05:21 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDaq
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The question you want to ask is actually lojmIt DawIvbogh yIngu’, and you’re right in that many sentences that are questions in English are best rendered as commands in Klingon. Questions are demands for information, after all.<br><br>lojmIt DawIv ‘e’ yIngu’ comes out meaning something like “Identify that you choose a door.” If I didn’t know what you were aiming at there, I would have suggested you change it to lojmIt DawIv ‘e’ yI’ol – Verify that you will choose a door, because that’s what the meaning approaches.<br><br>The word ‘e’ has the very specific purpose of making the entire preceding sentence the object of the following verb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I too don’t have a problem with lojmIt ‘arDIch DawIv? being answered with lojmIt wej vIwIv, but understand that it isn’t an exact match. I’m not sure what the question that matches exactly in English is.<br><br>- Qov<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Brad Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] <br><b>Sent:</b> June 16, 2014 19:12<br><b>To:</b> [email protected]<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDaq<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>>>> ghItlh Steven Boozer:</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='color:black'>If I ask, "Which door do you choose?", it's still simple {lojmIt 'arDIch DawIv?} <o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style='color:black'>You answer "I choose the third door." {lojmIt wejDIch vIwIv.}<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style='color:black'>There doesn't seem to be a way to ask the question that is answered by {lojmIt wej vIwIv}. "I choose door #3."</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>>>></span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Is there are requirement that if the question uses {'arDIch} that the answer must use {number-DIch}?</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>It would seem that {-DIch} is a "sequential" marker that identifies its headword either by appearance to the speaker, or importance, or by some other criterion.</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>To elicit a response of {lojmIt wej vIwIv}, a question of the form {lojmIt DawIv 'e' yIngu'} would be in order (which isn't a question at all).</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>gheyIl</span></tt><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></tt></span></pre></div></div></body></html>_______________________________________________
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