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Re: Missing question words

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Mon Jan 14 11:56:29 2008

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From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:54:57 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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ja' Doq:

> wa'SaD qelI'qam'e' Hop juHwIj.
>
> I can't think of another way of saying "My home is a thousand qelI'qam
> from here." I certainly can't come up with a way to say it anywhere
> nearly this concisely.

I can think of several.

wa'SaD qelI'qam 'ab juHwIj chuq.
wa'SaD qelI'qammo' Hop juHwIj.
juHwIj HopmoH wa'SaD qelI'qam.

Add {naDevvo'} if context isn't already sufficient.

-- ghunchu'wI'



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