tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 08 21:22:52 1997
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Re: Question as object
- From: "WATT FAMILY" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Question as object
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:11:43 +1000
don;t send this to me any moore [email protected]
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> From: [email protected]
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Question as object
> Date: Thursday, 6 November 1997 17:47
>
> In a message dated 97-11-04 15:15:14 EST, pagh writes:
>
> << A question in Klingon is a request for information. I know of no
> evidence that Klingon uses questions for anything else. I have used
> rhetorical questions in my own writing (not, mind you, in a question as
> object), but I have never seen them in canon.
>
> How does this request for information behave when acting as a noun? It
> cannot still be requesting information from the listener; the sentence
> is no longer a question (or if it is, it is a different question). So
> does a question act like its own answer? I simply cannot accept that. >>
>
> What a lot of reader's of Klingon grammar rules as laid out in TKD 6.2.5
> appear to be overlooking is that we do not have to be concerned with what
> type of sentence is used as the object when referred to by {'e'}. The
> section clearly points out that a whole "sentence" is the object. We do
not
> have to consider what words make up that sentence.
>
> Or, are those of you who arguing that a question does not seem correct as
the
> object of an {'e'} referral claiming that a question is not a sentence?
Why
> must you think that a parallel sentence must exist for the sentence to
> qualify as a sentence?
>
> peHruS