tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 13 14:46:27 1996
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Re: asking
- From: Terry Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: asking
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:45:44 -0600 (CST)
I still have this nagging feeling that Okrand really does intend for {tlhob}
to mean "asking for (an action to be performed)" and some other word
(maybe {yu'} to mean "asking (about the truth of something)". I'm thinking
now of the words for "Yes" and "No". It seems to me that {lu'/luq} and
{Qo'} are intended as "Yes" and "No" replies to requests ("Yes (I will),
"No (I won't)), while {Hija'/HISlaH} and {ghobe'} are supposed to answer
questions of fact ("Yes (it's true), "No (it's false)"). I note also
that {Qo'} was introduced in the Addendum, the same place that we find
the redefinition of {tlhob}.
-- ter'eS