tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 19 09:42:15 1998
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Re: SuvwI'bom
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: SuvwI'bom
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:41:46 -0700 (PDT)
---Alan Anderson wrote:
> In Klingon, I am compelled to treat the questions {nuq 'oH ponglIj'e'}
> and {ponglIj 'oH nuq'e'} differently. The first question asks me what
> my name is, in the sense of asking for a description of it. The
second
> asks me what my is, in the sense of asking what can be described as my
> name. I rarely dwell on this distinction, but I am always aware of it
> when someone asks a question in the order opposite the way I "want"
it.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
Quite agreed. The section on pronoin as to be distingushes between
the subject and object of the sentence. I think this issue gets
confused because of the inversion in English when asking questions.
What is your name - nuq 'oH ponglIj'e'
Your name is what? - ponglIj 'oH nuq'e'
My name is Qov. - Qov 'oH pongwIj'e'
Qov is my name - pongwij 'oH Qov'e'
Remember Okrand's explanation of X 'oH Y'e':
As for Y it is X.
*Y* is the topic of the sentence.
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