tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 11 05:40:03 1997
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Re: plans
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: plans
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 00:02:51 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:33:30 -0800 (PST) Alan Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I'm not *completely* sure that a question can never be the object of
> another sentence.
Well, as I noted earlier, I suspect that certain verbs might
work better than {Sov}. For example, I think it works with
{jang}, as in {yuch Soppu' 'Iv 'e' vIjanglaHbe'.} Even that
sounds strange to me, but not nearly as strange as anything else
presented, since the second verb does address the question and
not a pseudorelational pronoun/question word, and it is not a
direct quotation in the usual sense.
> 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.
Yuck. I'd cast that as {chaq yuch Soppu' puq. jIpIH, 'ach jISovbejbe'.}
> -- ghunchu'wI'
charghwI'