<div dir="auto">De'vID:<div dir="auto">> <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">In Star Trek VI, there's this exchange.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> Prison warden: Daq SovlaHbe'taH qIrq.<br>> Chang: DaSovbej'a'? bISuDrup'a'?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Is this dialogue 'oqranD approved ?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">qunnoq</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 18, 2017 4:38 PM, "mayqel qunenoS" <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">SuStel:<div dir="auto">> <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I find myself preferring </span><b style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">chay' bISov?</b></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With regards to the options of {chay' DaSov ?} and {chay' 'e' DaSov ?).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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" ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">qunnoq</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 18, 2017 4:26 PM, "SuStel" <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_360493446433884985quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_360493446433884985m_-7805434570344634603moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/2017 8:56 AM, Lieven wrote:<br>
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18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color:#000000">As soon as he
finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him
"how do you know it (this fact) ?
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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 ?
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Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of
correctness.
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a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no
evidence this is correct.
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b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence,
maybe {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong.
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c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say
what you even used in your question:
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{chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?}
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"How do you know that fact?"
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</div><p>I find myself preferring <b>chay' bISov?</b><font color="#888888"><br>
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