<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Mar 10, 2019, at 21:32, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:0C4851B3-C98E-4E49-B2CA-BABCE601E00C@dadap.net" preoffsettop="46"><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">My first instinct on how to ask that question was “chay' nguv?” However, after I asked it that way, I immediately thought to myself that maybe that is asking about the means by which the car is colored (e.g. laSvarghDaq lunguvmoHpu' nguvmoHmeH qoqmey”) rather than its current state of coloration.</pre>
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<p>It can't mean that; you'd have to ask <b>chay' nguvmoHlu'pu'</b>
<i>how has one tinted it? </i>to get that.<br>
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<p><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, cool. In English “how” can both ask a question of quality and a question of process (my own made up terminology; I’m sure there are better words I don’t know, or did know and have forgotten), and I wasn’t sure if {chay'} could also do both in Klingon. The examples for {chay'} in TKD 6.4 did not include any questions of quality.</div><div><br></div><div>It makes sense that {chay'} with a verb of quality would form a question of quality, but form a question of process when {-moH} is added. At least that’s what I think your example with {chay' nguv} vs. {chay' nguvmoHlu'pu'} generalizes out to.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">So I reasked as “Doq'a'? SuD'a'? chIS'a'? qIj'a'?”</pre>
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<p>That's really awful.<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p>
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<p>KGT tells us:</p></div></blockquote><br><div>D’oh; once again I failed to open a perfectly good book I have sitting on my shelf before asking the list. Apologies for the noise.</div></body></html>