tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 12 01:05:41 1997
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RE: indirect questions (was: Re: plans)
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: indirect questions (was: Re: plans)
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:16:32 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 20:28:30 -0800 (PST)
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: indirect questions (was: Re: plans)
>
> [email protected] on behalf of Anthony.Appleyard wrote:
> > Would this work?:-
> > I know who ate the chocolate: yuch Soppu'bogh ghaH'e' vIngu'laH
> > I know the child who ate the chocolate: yuch Soppu'bogh puq'e' vIngu'laH
>
> maj.
>
> > I asked Worf who ate the chocolate:
> > yuch Soppu'bogh ghaH'e' ngu' 'e' wo'rIv vItlhob
>
> You've got a double object for {tlhob}, and as a verb of saying, {tlhob}
> doesn't use {'e'} anyway. The quotation associated with a verb of saying is
> not the object of that verb.
>
> yuch Soppu' 'Iv? wo'rIv vItlhob
>
> or
>
> wo'rIv vItlhob yuch Soppu' 'Iv?
>
> If you *really* wanted to use {'e'} with {tlhob} (we see this done in KGT
> p.184) you'd have to say
>
> yuch Soppu'bogh nov'e' ngu' wo'rIv 'e' vItlhob
> I asked Worf to identify the person who ate the chocolate.
> Literally, "I request that Worf identify the person who has eaten the
> chocolate."
>
> SuStel
> Stardate 97863.8
>