[tlhIngan Hol] do the filler words express the "asking hmm" too?

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Wed Mar 3 06:53:38 PST 2021


On 3/3/2021 9:45 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> toH                       So!  Well!  Huh?  What?
> va                          [Phew!  Pha!  Alas!]

Where did the /Huh?/ and /What?/ glosses of *toH* come from? Where did 
these glosses for *va* come from, and why are they bracketed?

So far as I know, *toH* is /well!, so!/ expressing approximately the 
same as English /Aha!,/ while *va* is just a shortened form of 
*Qu'vatlh, *which is said in moments of extreme anger, but which we 
don't have a translation for.

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SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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