[tlhIngan Hol] When did you buy the phone which you now use ?

[mayqel qunenoS]

All of these are indeed wonderful suggestions, but let me ask you something.

Is the original sentence {ghorgh DaH ghogh HablI' Dalo'bogh Daje' ?}
grammatically
correct ?

Can we have side by side {ghorgh} and {DaH} ? This has been the source of
my confusion in the first place..

qunnoq

On 11 Aug 2017 4:39 pm, "Steven Boozer" <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Niqolay Q is right, but without any context I would have to think about it
> for a moment.  In writing, punctuation is helpful:
>
>
>
>   DaH ghogh HablI' Dalo'bogh, ghorgh Daje' ?
>
>   The phone you’re using now, when did you buy it?
>
>
>
> Since you can’t see punctuation in speech, using {-‘e’} (topic) is
> helpful, as well as a slight pause after the first clause (which is what a
> comma represents):
>
>
>
>   DaH ghogh HablI'’e’ Dalo'bogh [pause] ghorgh Daje' ?
>
>   As for the phone you’re using now, when did you buy it?
>
>   That phone you’re using now, when did you buy it?
>
>
>
> Before qunnoq asks…  I’m using “that” colloquially as a topic marker in
> English – not necessarily to distinguish “that phone” (over there) from
> “this phone’ (in my hand).
>
>
>
> --Voragh
>
>
>
> *From:* tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org] *On
> Behalf Of *nIqolay Q
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:18 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether we can pack into a single klingon sentence, the
> question:
>
>
>
> "When did you buy the phone, which you now use ?"
>
>
>
> If we translated it exactly, then perhaps we would have:
>
>
>
> {ghorgh DaH ghogh HablI' Dalo'bogh Daje' ?}
>
>
>
> But the existence, side-by-side of {ghorgh} and {DaH}, results in an
> awkward sentence
>
>
>
> It doesn't seem that awkward to me. Since it doesn't make sense for the
> {DaH} to go with {Daje'}, it must be going with the relative clause.
>
>
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