tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 06 15:20:21 1997
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RE: Sentence as Object
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Sentence as Object
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:50:00 -0500
ghItlh SuStel
>Speaking of Klingon modes of thought, I've always believed that rhetorical
>questions are very un-Klingon. Questions as objects can begin to make
some
>sense, at the cost of being entirely rhetorical.
There *was* the idiom {nong; vulqangan rur} in KGT, but it said
specifically that that was a lone instance and there was nothing else
resembling it.
Hmm, and there were a few rhetorical questions in TKW, but that wasn't
Okrand's fault; it was the scriptwriters.
Qapla'
qoror