<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">De'vID:</span><br></div><div dir="auto">> <span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">When Klingon is spoken</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Indeed, this is the important point here: "when klingon is spoken".</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Before starting this thread, while contemplating this matter, I asked myself: "If klingons actually existed, and heard a single noun with the voice of the speaker being colored as if there was an {-'a'} attached to it, then wouldn't he understand it (the noun) as a question ?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Since during speech, the voice in Klingon is "colored" (I'm using the word we use in Greece, because I don't know the english word), as it is in english (to express anger/frustration/sadness), then probably a noun followed by a question mark, would probably be understood in Klingon as being a question.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">However, I agree that this is something that would mainly take place in informal spoken speech.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">qunnoq</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 26, 2017 08:15, "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com">de.vid.jonpin@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"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 25, 2017 19:15, "mayqel qunenoS" <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-8413724096140449358m_-7087390494942818386m_-8129654637275661582m_-234585626697332058quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">In order to form a question, we can either use the interrogative {-'a'}, or we can use question words such as {nuq}, {chay'}, etc..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However, recently I have been wondering whether it would be allowed, if the conversation calls for it, to write a noun placing next to it the question mark.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">{mawambe'chugh vaj nuq wISop ? pu'meymaj ?}</div><div dir="auto">If we don't hunt, then what will we eat ? Our phasers ?</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In Star Trek III, Kruge asks {vaj Daleghpu'?} Valkris answers {HISlaH jawwI'} even though it wasn't a {-'a'} question.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When Klingon is spoken, the grammar is a bit more lax than what's stated in TKD. According to the rules, you'd have to say {pu'meymaj DISop'a'?}, but if you said {pu'meymaj?} it would be acceptable spoken Klingon.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div><div dir="auto"></div></div>
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