tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 11 17:45:14 1997
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RE: KLBC: 'uQpa'
ja' SuStel:
>> Not necessarily a riddle, but, I
>> think, a good question - word:
>> "I ask you a question" = "I send you on a quest to find information."
>
>Now you've got a good idea! It's still mired in nouns (see all those
>prepositions?), but it's got potential. We could recast this just slightly,
>as follows:
>
>I command you in order that you find information.
Or we could just say "I ask you a question" = "I interrogate you" and use
the extremely simple Klingon verb {yu'}. Recasting sometimes works as well
or better when the vocabulary is adjusted more than the grammar.
-- ghunchu'wI'