[96385] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Who are you?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jun 5 10:28:41 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:28:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: <1370440640.89068.YahooMailNeo@web172602.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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Fiat Knox"
> Conversational Klingon, that venerable old resource, lists {SoH
> 'Iv} as "Who are you?" (from 11:20 on the above page) [...]
> I've been in favour of {'Iv SoH} for "Who are you?" and
> {nuq 'oH} for "What is it?" [...]
> So would you call it: a grammatical anomaly, a quirk of
> tlhIngan Hol, or something else?
I've always considered it a colloquialism. (Cp. the condescending "And you are...?" instead of a simple, polite "Who are you?") If you like, think of it as clipped: {SoH! 'Iv?}
After all, the tape was called "CONVERSATIONAL Klingon". <
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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