[95562] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "where are you from?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jan 15 13:21:57 2013
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:21:18 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmOkfgB362BmVebwu13J6Q3vddvC+dSDZcbekVsHjQ5wmQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/15/2013 12:54 PM, De'vID wrote:
> I'm putting together a list of "Beginner's Conversation" sentences that
> people can use at qepHom/'a'.
>
> Aside from the usual "what's your name?" and so on, I was trying to
> render "where are you from?"
>
> What do people think of {nuqvo' bIghoS?} or {nuqvo' bIpaw}? I don't
> think anything's wrong with {nuqvo'}, but might that be confusing to
> beginners? What's a way of saying "where are you from?" which a beginner
> can easily parse?
>
> Note that this is a separate question from {Daq DaDabbogh yIngu'} "where
> do you live?" which comes from canon.
nuq DaDab
where do you live?
What's the difference between "where are you from?" and "where do you
live?" if you're not talking about your history or ancestors?
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