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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions

Brad Wilson ([email protected]) [KLI Member]



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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_1444e110-a8bd-421b-98c4-3e825bad54ac" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Expanding on something SuStel wrote:</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">&gt;&gt;&gt; </font></tt><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Klingon can't </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">be misunderstood this way because it combines the "is-not" with the </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">"not-qualified" into a single word, "not-is-qualified."</span></pre></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">A) Isn't the man qualified?</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">B) Is the man not qualified?</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">C) Is the man unqualified?</span></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Being that {'um} is a "verb of state", it may turn on the use of {-Ha'} or {-be'}, or perhaps some more complicated.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">I would equate B=C, and possibly say {'umHa''a' loD?}, although it's been pointed out that this would likely mean he was qualified once, and now is not.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">To me, {'umbe''a' loD?} is A.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">gheyIl</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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