tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 09 20:02:44 1995
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Re: What's wrong with "which"?
On Fri, 9 Jun 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> Something about this post botherd me, but it wasn't until just now that I
> realized what it was. I don't have the original post but this is from
> *ghunchu'wI'(s') reply to *yoDtargh.
>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 1995 08:15:37 -0400
> Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> What bothered me is, WHY would one ask {tay Hovtay'vam yuQ nuqDIch?}?
> Wouldn't the correct question be {toq Hovtay'vam yuQ nuqDIch?}?
>
> tay(v)- be civilized; toq(v)- be inhabited
>
> This may be an elephant and flea question, but I was overexposed to Lewis
> Carroll as a child, and I need to know what YOU (the original author) mean
> by the word {tay} in that sentence.
The original sentence was "Which planet of this star system is civilized?"
> Soqra'tIS [email protected]
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