On 8/21/2017 10:03 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
'oqranD:
jarlIj qaq nuq? The answer to the question yIH nuq? ("What is a tribble?") would presumably be a definition or description of a tribble. This being the case, then, the answer to the question jarlIj qaq nuq? ("What is your preferable month?") would presumably be a definition of "your favorite month". According the above, the answer to the {qaq nuq wornagh Sar ?}, wouldn't be "the name of the preferable variety", but "the definition of the preferable variety".
However, would we have the same problem, if instead of the verb {qaq} we had another verb ?
If we wrote {DuropmoH nuq wornagh Sar ?} for "which ale variety made you sick ?", would we have the same problem ? I mean, would this actually ask for "the definition of the variety which made you sick" ?
**qaq nuq wornagh Sar* doesn't seek a definition of the preferable variety; it seeks a definition of the warnog variety. *nuq wornagh Sar*/what is a warnog variety?/ Phrased the way Okrand does, it is *wornagh Sar nuq.* The correct way to say /which ale variety made you sick?/ is *DuropmoHpu'bogh HIq Sar yIngu'.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name