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Re: {'Iv}

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: {'Iv}
• Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:12:14 EDT

In a message dated 2004-08-26 6:10:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> I think the best way to understand questions like {yIH nuq?} or {nuq 
> mI'lIj, tera'ngan?} (CK) are as verbless questions.  You don't need a verb 
> to ask a question.  This is not as strange as it seems.  For example, 
> Russian has no "to be" verb in the present tense.  E.g.
> 
>    *Kto vy?*   "Who [are] you?"
> 

But we're not talking about Russian.  In this context what Russian (or any 
other language) is irrelevant.  The question is:  Can Klingon have verbless 
sentences?  My limited experience tells me "no".

lay'tel SIvten

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