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RE: KLBC: Practicing with questions

• From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: Practicing with questions
• Date: 19 Apr 97 12:41:11 EDT

ghItlh SuStel
>There's hot debate as to whether you can say {nuq <noun>} for "which <noun>."  
>Personally, I am dead set against it without confirmation by Marc Okrand 
>himself.  There's always another, more Klingon way to say it, anyway.  More 
>Klingon, because it doesn't require using lots of nouns.  Klingon is a 
>language of verbs, use them a lot!

I agree.  But I think a good way would be {<noun>mey nuq}; "What of the
<noun>s?"  Hypothetical, of course, and feel free to contradict me, but I feel
it makes much more sense than {nuq <noun>}.
Qapla'
qoror

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