On 2/22/2019 2:07 PM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I have thought of that solution.
But using a pronoun instead of SaH, is often done; e.g. "the sword is in the ocean" from tkd.
So, I think that choosing to ask by saying {qatlh pa' jIHnIS} or {qatlh pa' jIHnIStaH} is a valid option.
But I don't know which of the two is the correct choice.
I can't say that doing this is wrong, but it's not ideal. Daniel's response is better. The more meaning you try to load onto a pronoun, the more awkward it will be. That said, if you /have/ to say it this way — and you almost certainly don't — what you're really asking is whether you need to use *-taH* to indicate some kind of ongoingness or temporariness of your location. The answer is that we don't know. Okrand is inconsistent with his usage of this. I prefer to use *-taH* when I'm talking about a movable object that may just happen to be somewhere at the moment, but not to use *-taH* when the object is fixed. *vaS'a'Daq 'oH puchpa''e' 'ej puchpa'Daq ghaHtaH Qang'e'.* But this is not an official rule and cannot be consistently demonstrated in the canon. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name