tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 14 05:41:04 1995
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Re: KLBC: starting right back at the beginning :)
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, R.B Franklin wrote:
> I don't think {chay'} or other question words can be used as conjunctions
> the way they are used English.
> She knows HOW to repair the engine.
> I know HOW to get to the Great Hall.
> I don't know WHO that officer is.
> We don't know WHERE the enemy's base is.
> I know WHERE he was buried.
Just a linguistic note, these are complementizers, not conjuctions.
The only example of a complementizer that we have in Klingon is /'e'/,
as described in TKD 6.2.5. "I know THAT he was buried." and so on.
> jIQongtaHvIS chay' jIHaDtaH 'e' vIghojnIS
So, this comes out as "I need to learn that while I sleep how do i
study." We have a term for this in linguistics: "word salad." (Okay,
maybe it's just my department of linguistics. ;) It's almost so bad
that it's like a bunch of words that have been tossed around. "The cat
the dog the cow kicked bit meowed." and so on.
> I would use nouns instead to fulfill that role:
Excellent solutions all.
> yoDtargh
--Holtej