tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 10 18:43:31 1997
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Re: plans
Alan Anderson wrote:
> Well, I'm not *completely* sure that a question can never be the object of
> another sentence. But I haven't yet seen one that makes real grammatical
> sense, with the possible exception of questions using the {-'a'} suffix.
> Somehow, {yuch Soppu''a' puq 'e' vISovbe'} doesn't quite sound wrong, but
> {yuch Soppu' puq 'e' vISovbe'} seems to carry the same idea.
If I came across a sentence like:
{yuch Soppu''a' puq 'e' vISovbe'}
I would translate that to:
[I don't know whether the child ate chocolate]
In colloquial English, it is more common to use
[I don't know if the child ate chocolate]
and
{yuch Soppu' puq 'e' vISovbe'}
as:
[I don't know that the child ate chocolate]