[tlhIngan Hol] The book of our good captain

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 02:40:58 PDT 2016


I understand that when experts talk, they have the tendency to explain
things in a way, simple people are unable to understand.

but because a conclusion (which simple people will be able to
understand), must come out of all this, I will ask again :

Are the following correct ?

question word {sentence 1 'e' sentence 2} = acceptable if the result
is a question, asking about the entire {sentence 1 'e' sentence 2}.

{sentence 1 question word 'e' sentence 2} = acceptable if the result
is a question, asking about sentence 2.

question word {sentence 1 neH} = acceptable if the result is a
question, asking about the entire {sentence 1 neH}.

{sentence 1 question word neH} = acceptable if the result is a
question, asking about the {neH}.

from this entire thread I understand, that there is no problem placing
a question word anywhere in a SAO, as long as the resulting
construction functions / is to be interpreted as a question.

If this conclusion is wrong, someone do correct me.

mIv mop je Hurgh qunnoq

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:33 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 July 2016 at 10:41, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the Klingon sentence is exactly "you want that when do you
>> drink?" That sounds unnatural in Klingon, but only because English
>> doesn't make it clear what the "when" applies to in a sentence with
>> multiple verbs, and Klingon does.
>
> [I meant "sounds unnatural in *English*" of course.]
>
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