[tlhIngan Hol] Question marks next to nouns

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 03:53:56 PDT 2017


On Aug 28, 2017 10:52, "Lieven" <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

Am 26.08.2017 um 07:15 schrieb De'vID:

> Star Trek V has a line spoken by Klaa that goes {'entepray'? qIrq Duj
> 'oH.} It might be an exclamation rather than a question, though it's
> phrased kind of like a rhetorical question.
>

Actually, he says {'entepray''a'?}, obviously breaking (or bending?) the
rule that {-'a'} is only a verb suffix, but it's clearly a yes/no question.


In the TKD section on pronunciation, it says that an echo follows {'} if
the speaker is excited. That might be what's happening there.

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De'vID
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