tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 06 10:09:32 1996
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Re: KLBC:law'-puS & more
On Wed, 6 Mar 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> Isn't the proper way to say "what?" <nuqjatlh>?
> In CK, that's what Okrand says to say...
The problem is, that there's more than a single meaning to the English
word "what". The phrase /nuqjatlh/ captures one of them, "what did you
say?" As an exclamation, "what" can refer to a wider range of
complementizer uses than this one: "what do you want", "what happened
here", etc.
> Rich
--Holtej