<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=""><div class="">If you like inviting someone to give you a wrong answer because you and they don’t agree on exactly what “Yes” means, in response to {qarbe’’a’}, then by all means, say {qarbe’’a’.}</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 8, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Jeffrey Clark <<a href="mailto:jmclark85@gmail.com" class="">jmclark85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">On May 8, 2019, at 10:55, nIqolay Q <<a href="mailto:niqolay0@gmail.com" class="">niqolay0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">You probably wouldn't have to start entirely from scratch. If someone says <b class="">wagh vIghro'mey tIQ. qarbe''a'?</b>, even though this isn't a usual tag question, I can deduce that <b class="">qarbe''a'</b> is probably supposed to refer to the previous statement. (Perhaps they originally said <b class="">wagh vIghro'mey tIQ</b> confidently, but then realized they weren't 100% sure, so they added <b class="">qarbe''a'</b>, in the sense of "...am I wrong?") It might not have the same connotations of expecting a "yes" answer, but you're still asking about the accuracy of a statement.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">This was my original assumed usage, based on my lack of knowledge from qar’a’ being able to exist as a second verb in the same phrase (not having fully read the TKD addendum).</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the usage that I figured would be grammatical, if “unexpected”. But using an unexpected phrasing is often a signalling device situationally desired for it’s altered connotations — as I’ve argued previously. <br class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">—jevreH</span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>