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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] tera' Hovtay'Daq PLUTO HurDaq bIHtaH'a' latlh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Wed Jan 21 17:04:24 2015

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:45:20 -0500
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On 1/21/2015 4:40 PM, Lieven wrote:
>> I avoided that because the choice is between a {yuQ} and a {yuQHom}, so
>> asking for its {yuQ Segh} rather biases the answer.
>
> Yes, there is a big difference if you really want to define the
> solutions in the question. Actually, it's the same problem in english:
> "Do you want milk or sugar?" - "Yes!"  ;-)

In English the question is grammatical and can be interpreted in two 
ways. In Klingon the question is (apparently) ungrammatical. It's not 
the same issue.

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SuStel
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