[86202] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jul 7 15:25:20 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:23:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <602620.81979.qm@web82604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Mark J. Reed:
>>>> Do we know how to turn a law'/puS statement into a
>>>> yes/no question, e.g. "is X more Y than Z?"
Doq:
>>> jIH val law' SoH val puS, qar'a'?
Mark J. Reed:
>>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'.
ter'eS:
>This is what I was getting at when I proposed in another context {SuS bIr
>HoS law''a' qo' Hov HoS pus'a'}. But I apparently only dreamed that we
>had canon support for putting verb suffixes on the {law'/puS} pair.
AFAIK the only verb suffix that has appeared on a {law'/puS} pair is {-be'}:
QuchlIj vIl law'be' QuchwIj vIl puSbe'
your forehead isn't ridgier than my forehead (HQ 13.1)
Note that it's on both {law'} and {puS}.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
