tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 03 18:06:52 2000
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Re: KLBC: nuq as object
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC: nuq as object
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:03:38 EDT
In a message dated 9/3/2000 1:13:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< As I understand it, some people feel that if the first sentence is a
question, then when the second sentence refers back to it, it refers to the
answer. So if someone was looking at it with this perspective, then they
might interpret {nuq DaSop DaneH?} as "What do you eat? You want that"; or
"You want whatever you eat" where "whatever you eat" is the answer to {nuq
DaSop}. Since I'm not a proponent of this idea, my explanation here might
not be the best one. Suffice to say, if you say {nuq DaSop DaneH}, a Klingon
speaker would understand you.
As often is the case in Klingon, you might prefer to be more direct and
simply say
{Soj DaneHbogh yIngu'!} - Identify the food/drink which you want!
>>
Additionally, if {nuq DaSop DaneH} is OK, would {nuq Sop puq neH SoSDaj} be
OK too? I got some argument from somebody.
Would I be forced to rearrange the sentence in Klingon and always make it a
command such as {Soj Sopbogh puq 'ej neHbogh SoSDaj yIngu'!}
This is getting complicated.
Xardana