<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On 1/4/2019 10:46 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
><i class=""> I am wondering, whether it is actually correct to join two "yes or no"
</i>><i class=""> questions with {pagh}.
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</i>><i class=""> If I write {Sojvam vIpar'a' pagh Sojvam vIparHa''a'} for "do I like
</i>><i class=""> this food or do I dislike it ?"
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</i>><i class=""> Then would it be an acceptable construction ?
</i></pre><div class=""><i class="">While I agree with others that we don’t know whether or not it’s an acceptable construction, it seems like it would be nice to offer some alternatives. Mostly, it doesn’t seem very stylistically succinct. It’s a remarkable number of redundant words.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">You aren’t adding any additional information to the basic {Sojvam vIpar’a’?} Answering that question with “yes” or “no” gives exactly the same information as answering which of the two opposite questions gets a “yes”.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">If you want to convey ambivalence, then just say so: {Sojvam vIpar ‘e’ vISIv.} It’s not really a question. You are simply indicating that you haven’t made your mind up.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Okrand spoke once about the verb {SIv} with Sentence As Object in HolQeD. He didn’t go into much detail.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">charghwI’ ‘utlh</i></div>
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