[83962] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Missing question words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Mon Jan 14 12:07:13 2008
In-Reply-To: <478B812C.6070109@trimboli.name>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:05:54 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ja' SuStel:
> How happy are you?
> How beautiful is she?
> How loyal is the captain?
>
> Those are the difficult ones.
From one point of view, they're trivial:
bIQuch'a'?
'IH'a' ghaH?
matlh'a' HoD?
If the correct answer isn't {HIja'} or {ghobe'}, the person
responding will probably give you the answer you need.
If you really want to be explicit about requesting a relative measure
of the quality, here are a few ways to do it:
QuchtaHghach 'ar Daghaj?
SoH Quch law' 'Iv Quch puS?
bIQuchmo', nuq Darur?
These are the ones that come immediately to mind. There are
undoubtedly other ways to ask the question. I don't consider it a
difficult issue at all.
-- ghunchu'wI'
