[83964] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Missing question words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth Lawrence)
Mon Jan 14 12:51:21 2008
From: Elizabeth Lawrence <jiqaj@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:48:40 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F243BDF6-215D-482C-AE67-D6C2372594F6@insightbb.com>
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
I would simply rephrase as a command.
bIQuch 'e' yIDel
'IH ghaH 'e' yIDel
matlh HoD 'e' yIDel
~be''etlh
> From: aranders@insightbb.com
> Subject: Re: Missing question words
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:05:54 -0500
> 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'
>
>
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