<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:13 AM Daniel Dadap <<a href="mailto:daniel@dadap.net">daniel@dadap.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In Star Trek V, there’s a scene where tlha'a HoD says “'entepray''a'?” and it’s captioned in English as “Enterprise?” Surely, he wasn’t adding the type nine verb suffix “-'a'” to a noun, so what was he doing?<br>
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* Using the type one noun suffix “-'a'” to mean something like “The great Enterprise?”<br>
* Referring to the “Enterprise-A” with registry number NCC-1701-A<br>
* Momentarily forgetting proper grammar for a moment because he was so excited<br>
* Using a dialect or slang where forming questions this way is allowed<br>
* Adding the verb suffix “-'a'” to a noun, after all<br>
* Some combination of some of the above possibilities<br>
* Something else<br>
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Are there other examples where the interrogative marker is added to a noun for a similar kind of sentence fragment as a question? Has Maltz ever commented on this?<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Contextually, it seems like it's supposed to be a question. "The Enterprise? Really?" My guess is that it's a slang construction, adding the interrogative verb suffix to a noun to ask whether something really is that noun. Maltz has never commented on it, so I assume it's not a particularly common sort of slang. <br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is MO at the qepHom going on? Maybe someone there can ask him real quick.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>