tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 30 13:52:57 1995
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Re: What's wrong with "which"?
>Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:31:16 -0400
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: [email protected]
>I may be totally wrong in my feelings on this one, but I would like to see
>some comments:
>I feel:
>nuq nuH vIlo'nIS
>for the noun-noun construction employing <nuq>.
>At the same time, I thoroughly agree with:
>qama'pu' 'Iv wIHoH
Hmm. This seems inconsistent. For "which of the prisoners," you have
"qama'pu' 'Iv", which is sensible, since the "who" is subordinate to the
prisoners (note the English: which *OF THE* prisoners, which is pretty much
a genitive construction). So why do you have "nuq" before "nuH"? "The
weapon of what need I use/what's weapon need I use"? That doesn't make
sense. If anything (i.e. if there's not another construction), the nuq
should come after: what of the weapon(s) should I use? i.e. which one.
>peHruS
~mark