tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 29 14:01:45 1995
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Re: Calendar Ideas
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Calendar Ideas
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:01:42 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "DaQtIq" at Dec 28, 95 06:47:40 am
According to DaQtIq:
>
> ghItlh peHruS:
> > {'ar jaj ghaj jarvam net Sovbe'} I think should be {jarvam
> > jajmey mI' Sovbe' vay'}.
I still think this just means "Somebody doesn't know this
month's day's number. It loses several grips on meaning.
> I do see two points in your rendition about which I comment: 1)
> > {'ar} follows the Noun about which it asks the amount; and, 2) as far as
> > discussion on this listserv has shown, all the Klingon question words may not
> > be used as relative pronouns.
Meanwhile, if he had been trying to use a relative pronoun, I
would have expected {-bogh} somewhere... Klingon doesn't have
any relative pronouns. It has relative clauses constructed from
a verbal suffix. It is just a different construction toward the
same end.
> bIlughba'. <jaj 'ar ghaj jarvam> vIghItlh 'e' vIHech.
>
> As to point two: since i was using the sentence as object construction, i
> thought this was allowed. "How many days does this month have? this one
> doesn't know."
Krankor argued this and I don't remember anybody challenging
him successfully on it. There are probably alternatives if you
wish to avoid this construction, whether it is valid or not.
jarvam chenmoH jajmey 'ar? janglaH pagh.
> - DaQtIq
charghwI'
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