tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 30 01:02:13 2001
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Re: QAO (was: I had an idea, I don't know how...)
Sean:
> While this leaves question-word-as-relative-pronoun open, it does leave
> us with no way to have yes/no questions as an object.
Simply replace the <<'e'>> with <<jatlhlu'taHvIS>> or <<jatlhlu'chugh>>.
(And change the verb prefix to no-object.)
> In English we can say, "I don't know whether he went" (in fact, saying "I
> don't know did he go" would seem wierd, although it's valid in other
> languages), but we have no Klingon equivalent for 'whether'.
<<mej'a' jatlhlu'chugh jIjanglaHbe'>>
In most cases, it's better to use a <<yIngu'>> or <<vIngu'laHbe'>>
formulation if possible, but here it isn't.
Jiri
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