tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 29 06:42:39 1996
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Re: KLBC: Some simple sentences
According to Alan Anderson:
>
> Eskil Heyn Olsen writes:
...
> >Restaurant :
> >
> >1. qa'vIn SaH'a' ? Is there coffee ?
>
> Since the object comes before the verb in a Klingon sentence, I read
> this as "Does he care about coffee?" Turn it around: {SaH'a' qa'vIn}
> means "Is coffee present?"
This looks good, though there is more canon to support:
qa'vIn tu'lu''a'?
I think this would be a more common Klingon idiom for stating
the intended meaning. After all, the presence of coffee is
ineffective if no one finds it. {{:)
Pardon this comment on a good response to the questions...
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
charghwI'
--
reH lugh charghwI' net Sov.