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Re: Skype yISuq!

ngabwI' ([email protected])

• From: "ngabwI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Skype yISuq!
• Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:59:20 -0400
• References: <[email protected]>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: Skype yISuq!


> In a message dated 2004-09-21 6:21:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Dunmo'
>> mIwvam tlhIHvaD vI'angnIS. internetDaq ghogh HablI' mIwvam SuqnISlu'bej.
>> 'oHvaD DIlnISlu'be' 'ej lo'meH pagh poQlu'.
>
> ghogh jonmeH jan lo''a' mIwvam (skype) qoj ghogh HablI'na' lo''a'?
>
> [Interestingly, I had never before noticed that in a sentence like "Do you
> want coffee or tea?", you can't properly use the noun conjunctions {ghap} 
> or
> {joq} unless you want neither; the sentence is not a yes/no question. 
> That's why
> I rephrased it the way I did.

And you rephrased it well, IMHO. This is exactly how I would have done it. 
It scanned easily, and was easily understood the first time. majQa'!

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org
HovpoH 702074.2 

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