tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 06 06:25:00 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Likely {'umbe'} means "not qualified", while {'umHa'} means "disqualified".</div><br><div><div>On May 5, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Brad Wilson <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="arial">
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_1444e110-a8bd-421b-98c4-3e825bad54ac" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; 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">>>> </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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