tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 15 13:49:25 1997
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Re: Ha'DIbaHmey
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Ha'DIbaHmey
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:49:20 -0700 (PDT)
At 09:40 PM 9/14/97 -0700, Qermaq wrote:
>ghItlh SuStel:
>
>>Not really so surely. There's been a lot of debate on that point. Can
>>question words be used in this way? Could you say {'Iv tlhIngan Ha'DIbaH}
>for
>>"whose Klingon animal"? If so, shouldn't you also be able to say {SoH
>>tlhIngan Ha'DIbaH} for "your Klingon animal"?
>
>Excellent point. Just because question words tend to fall into positions
>which mirror their 'replaced' counterparts doesn't mean that we can replace
>any noun with nuq, or any name with 'Iv.
I believe TKD 6.4 says we can.
>tlhIngan nuq can only mean, as far
>as canon I've seen, "What is a Klingon?". tIn tlhIngan nuq would not be
>"The Klingon's 'what' is big?" - we just don't have canon to support that
>usage. Could I say My 'what' is burning? as meQtaH nuqwI'???? I don't think
>so at all.
No, because {-wI'} is a noun suffix and {nuq} is of the chuvmey. You'd have
to say {... nuq vIghajbogh}.
Qov ([email protected])
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