[tlhIngan Hol] Referring to the entire preceding passage

[mayqel qunenoS]

De'vID:
> In Star Trek VI, there's this exchange.
> Prison warden: Daq SovlaHbe'taH qIrq.
> Chang: DaSovbej'a'?  bISuDrup'a'?

Is this dialogue 'oqranD approved ?

qunnoq

On Aug 18, 2017 4:38 PM, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> SuStel:
> > I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?*
>
> With regards to the options of {chay' DaSov ?} and {chay' 'e' DaSov ?).
>
> If you were asked "how would you characterize them ?", then would you say
> "they are wrong", "they are unacceptable", "they don't make sense", or "we
> don't know whether we can use them" ?
>
> qunnoq
>
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2017 4:26 PM, "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>
> On 8/18/2017 8:56 AM, Lieven wrote:
>
> Am 18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
>
> As soon as he finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him
> "how do you know it (this fact) ?
>
> Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the use of the
> prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the entire preceding
> speech/passage ?
>
>
> Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of correctness.
>
> a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no evidence
> this is correct.
>
> b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence, maybe
> {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong.
>
> c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say what
> you even used in your question:
>   {chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?}
>   "How do you know that fact?"
>
> I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?*
>
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