tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 08 21:23:07 1997
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Re: Question as object
- From: "WATT FAMILY" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Question as object
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:16:10 +1000
don't send this to [email protected]
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> From: m109 <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Question as object
> Date: Thursday, 6 November 1997 20:41
>
> In message <971106023118_1069086239@mrin47>, [email protected] writes
> >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
>
> Referring to rhetorical questions, can you not use <qar'a'>
> qelayn
> --
> m109