tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 16 17:40:15 2001
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RE: KLBC: yu'ghach Daj
- From: "Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: yu'ghach Daj
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:40:16 -0400
I said:
>This sounds a little awkward; you could just ask >the
straight-forward
>question "How many Christians learn Klingon?"
qonwI' replied:
Actually I wasn't asking for an answer, it was just sort of
"thinking out
loud". (I couldn't find a word for "wonder")
{SIv} is the verb "wonder". It's one of the words which is in the
Klingon-English half of the dictionary, but not in the English-Klingon half.
I believe that "wonder" was mentioned in an interview in an issue HolQeD. It
was one of several verbs that were used in sentence-as-object constructions.
You would use it this way:
{mIgh qoqlIj 'e' vISIv} "I wonder if your robot is evil", literally "Your
robot is evil. I wonder that."
> Daj yu'ghach 'e' vIQub.
>
>The above sentence could be translated as:
>"I think that the interrogation is interesting"
I was trying to find the word "question" (as a noun) but only found
{yu'},
and I wasn't sure how I could use that.
We don't have any nouns for "question", but we have several related verbs:
{yu'} "interrogate"
{ghel} "ask (a question)"
For example, you might say:
{Daj qechvam vIghelbogh} "This idea which I ask is interesting"
There is also the verb {tlhob} ("request, ask, plead"), but that seems to be
"asking for something" rather than "asking a question".
- taD