tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 26 08:23:50 1999
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RE: klbc: SIv
Rolando Coto:
: i wonder who his enemy is.
: me pregunto quien es su enemigo.
: jaghDaj ghaH 'Iv 'e' vISIv.
pagh:
: This is a tough one - Okrand himself has not yet figured out <SIv>. The
: first one is probably not correct - it involves a question as the object of
: <SIv>, so it probably doesn't work.
Why not make this a quote reporting your thought, thereby avoiding the
dreaded QAO:
jIghel'egh: <jaghDaj ghaH 'Iv'e'?>
<jaghDaj 'Iv?> jISIv.
Idle speculation ahead...
Okrand explained on st.klingon that the question word {nuq} can be used as
a pronoun in "to be" sentences; his example was {yIH nuq} "What is a
tribble?". I'm wondering (jISIv!) whether {'Iv} might work the same way,
at least in informal speech.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons