[89381] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: nuq jatlh be'vam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Fri Sep 2 10:34:27 2011
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmMVC8=k5oaKSp1tuDWsJKNJXLtNeZzvZFjn1iafrwBbGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:28:00 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
If both questions were appropriately answered "yes/no", then I could see it as a means of requesting that a choice be made between them. That's how it is typically done in English. Otherwise, it would be strange, indeed.
pItlh.
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:19 PM, De'vID ( ) wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRjYlHDkZE&t=1m9s
> It's supposed to be: "Is that Monopoly: Klingon Edition in your pocket? Or
> are you just happy to see me?"
>
> The sentence sounds like it begin with <'oH>, so it's probable that someone
> just did a 1-to-1 look-up in the dictionary and that the sentence isn't
> grammatical, but I'd still like to know what it was *supposed* to have been.
>
> Also: How would you express the above sentence ("Is that X in your pocket or
> are you happy to see me?") in Klingon?
>
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> De'vID ( )
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