I think you’re being too literal with the English. Try using an expletive, such as {chay’?}: (TKD 6.4): The question word {chay'} "how?" may be used as a one-word sentence meaning “How did this happen? What happened? What the--?” chay’! jIQIp’a’? What the ---! Am I stupid? Use other expletives depending on how angry you are. E.g. ghay’cha’! jIQIp ‘e’ DaQub’a’? @#$%! Do you think I’m stupid? -- Voragh __________________________________________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> On Behalf Of mayqel qunen'oS Suppose someone wants to say: "what am I ? stupid ?" And suppose that the cookie monster, forbids him to say: {jIQIp'a' ?}, and be done with it, so he *has* to find a way to translate the "what am I ?". How should he say it ? Should he say: {nuq jIH} ? Or should he say {'Iv jIH} ? I'm troubled by this, because the way I *feel* the klingon {QIpwI'}, is it being more of an {'Iv} rather than a {nuq}. But reading {'Iv jIH}, I would expect to read something like {(name of a person) jIH}, rather that {QIpwI' jIH}. I don't know.. Perhaps I'm (overly) influenced by greek/english on this..