[86200] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qe'San \(Jon Brown\))
Tue Jul 7 15:10:24 2009
From: "qe'San \(Jon Brown\)" <qeSan@btinternet.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:59:30 +0100
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 4:12 AM
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Doq<doq@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> jIH val law' SoH val puS, qar'a'?
>
> I thought about it, and it'll do in a pinch, but it's not quite what
> I'm looking for. You appear to be stating ahead of time a belief that
> the answer to the question is yes.
>
> "X is better than Y, right?"
>
> I was looking for a more neutral
>
> "Is X better than Y?"
>
> But I'm assuming we don't actually have a way to say that. Do'Ha'.
Could you get nearer to this with what I hope means "what/who's Q-est out of X or Y?"
Using "who?" an observer of the classic joke migh just ask a fellow observer:
'Iv Doy' law' Hoch Doy' puS, qama' 'avwI' ghap Dangu'
And if that construction works then a "what?" construction might be:
nuq nom law' Hoch nom puS, qIvo'rIt qItI'nga ghap Dangu'
to which the answer might be:
qItI'nga nom law' qIvo'rIt nom puS
or in speech just
qItI'nga
I know it's not a Yes/No question but possibly a more Klingon approach assuming it's ok.
>> Doq
>>
>> On Jul 2, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Do we know how to turn a law'/puS statement into a yes/no question,
>>> e.g. "is X more Y than Z?"
>>> --
>>> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
>>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
