On Mar 10, 2019, at 21:32, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
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. It can't mean that; you'd have to ask chay' nguvmoHlu'pu' how has one tinted it? to get that.
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. 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.
So I reasked as “Doq'a'? SuD'a'? chIS'a'? qIj'a'?” That's really awful.
Agreed.
KGT tells us:
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.