tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 03 22:00:14 1996
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re: "any"
:>My original and apparently unanswered question is: How do you say "Do you
:>speak any Federation language", in the sense of "any language spoken in
:>the Federation".
> Have you perhaps tried to ask the question _that_ way:
> DIvI'Daq jatlhlu' Hol Dajatlh'a' SoH
In other words, there isn't a simple way to say "any" and I have to
recast? Okay. I wanted to avoid {-Daq} because I thought it referred to
the entire sentence (thus: "In the Federation, do you speak..."), but in the
above it's pretty obvious that it refers only to the relative pronoun. And
someone else pointed out that {DIvI'(Daq) Hol} can mean "a/the language
spoken in the Federation", which is English. But based on your suggestion:
DIvI'Daq Holmey jatlhlu', wa' Dajatlh'a'?
Okay, this was what I was looking for. Thanks. qatlho'! (Or as Picard
would say, Kadlo!)
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dave yeung
{toD Duj 'oH toDuj'e'}
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