On 9/5/2017 9:04 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
and I ask again..
"..However, if one of the meanings given by the {-wI'} is "thing which does/is", then why not translate {ghelwI'} as "thing which asks"/"thing which is asking" i.e. a question ?.."
It has been pointed out to you that *ghelwI'* might indeed be translated as the question itself, in the same way that a *ghItlhwI'* might be a person writing or a pen writing. However, this is assuming that a question is a thing that can /ask./ One might say a question is nothing but an utterance that conveys the asking of a person. The question is not asking a question. We don't know how Klingons view this linguistically. When you used it in another thread, I understood what you were saying, but that's not the same as saying it's the right way to say it. In a neutral context, I'd be much more inclined to assume a *ghelwI'* is a person or device asking a question than the question itself. Since you can easily avoid the problem by not trying to turn /question/ into a Klingon noun (/I have a question/ --> *jIghelnIS*), it's best to chalk this up to "we don't know" and leave it at that. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name