tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 07 16:11:28 1997
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RE: be'pu'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: be'pu'
- Date: Wed, 7 May 97 23:08:30 UT
jatlh peHruS:
> << > Stardate 97323.1 jatlh charghwI':
> ..
> > > *Kellie* 'Iv? >>
>
> Based on TKD's {SoH 'Iv}, perhaps a Klingon idiomatic usage rather than an
> example of correct grammar, you could say {Kellie 'Iv}.
>
> 'ach jIQuch
You mean {jIQoch}, don't you?
> {'Iv ghaH Kellie'e'} vImaSchu'
Okrand has explained that the question word {nuq} can be used as a pronoun is
used in "to be" sentences. His example is, I think (I don't have the message
on my new hard drive yet), {yIH nuq} "What is a tribble?" I don't remember if
he addressed {'Iv}, but I doubt it's important: TKD p. 69 shows that {'Iv} and
{nuq} function in the same way.
Conversational Klingon also has a sentence, {nuq mI'lIj, tera'ngan} "What is
your number, Terran?" Apparently, {nuq} can go on either side of the noun. I
suppose then that charghwI' could have asked, if he wanted to, {'Iv *Kellie}.
Your sentence, {'Iv ghaH *Kellie*'e'}, is also perfectly valid. Another
possibility is {*Kellie* ghaH 'Iv'e'}.
maja'chuqtaHvIS *Kellie* wIqeltaH tugh 'e' SovnIS ghaH! chaq tlhIngan Hol
jabbI'ID vIghItlh 'ej ghaHvaD vInob. vIja' <Dayaj DaneHchugh, tlhIngan Hol'e'
nom yIghoj!>.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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