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RE: pronouns

DloraH ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

> So, you took the English question "Whose girlfriend is that?" and  
> pretended like there is a Klingon question word for "whose" and  
> answered {ghaHwI'} and so far everyone here has let you get 
> away with  
> it. But if you actually tried to ask that question in Klingon, you'd  
> realize there is no question word for "whose". There is only one for  
> "who": {'Iv}. So the question is not "Whose girlfriend is that?" The  
> question is really "That is the girlfriend of whom?" So, if you  
> wanted to use a short answer, the answer would be {jIH!}.

Ok, so that question was a bad example of a way to derive to a pronoun-type4; and I am certainly not
suggesting daily usage, but I can imagine that a type 4 COULD be used, at least in colloquial usage.

In a classroom in a writing exam it would not be good.  But on the street among friends I wouldn't
have any problem with it.  Even then it would certainly be rare.


DloraH

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