tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 22 19:03:25 1999
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{nuqDaq DaDab}
ja' peHruS:
>I know the right way to answer {nuqDaq DaDab} and the right way is {Shannon
>vIDab}. I have no doubt about this at all.
Given that many of us recently went over this sort of construction without
coming to a definite conclusion, your certainty on this point really ought
to amaze me. But I'm accustomed to finding you proclaiming things without
having any support for your ideas, so I merely accept this as yet another
example.
>How do I KNOW? KGT clearly states that {Dab} means "live at." From related
>discussion regarding the necessity of the locative, we can conclude that
>locative is not required for such a gloss of a Klingon verb.
KGT thus implies that the proper form of the question might be {nuq DaDab}.
With that question, the answer {Shannon vIDab} is almost certainly correct.
charghwI' was saying that the best form of the answer to {nuqDaq DaDab} is
a little bit harder to pin down.
-- ghunchu'wI'