Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Referring to the entire preceding passage
SuStel:
I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?*
With regards to the options of {chay' DaSov ?} and {chay' 'e' DaSov ?). If you were asked "how would you characterize them ?", then would you say "they are wrong", "they are unacceptable", "they don't make sense", or "we don't know whether we can use them" ? qunnoq On Aug 18, 2017 4:26 PM, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote: On 8/18/2017 8:56 AM, Lieven wrote: Am 18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS: As soon as he finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him "how do you know it (this fact) ? Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the use of the prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the entire preceding speech/passage ? Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of correctness. a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no evidence this is correct. b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence, maybe {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong. c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say what you even used in your question: {chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?} "How do you know that fact?" I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?* -- SuStelhttp://trimboli.name _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org
De'vID:
In Star Trek VI, there's this exchange. Prison warden: Daq SovlaHbe'taH qIrq. Chang: DaSovbej'a'? bISuDrup'a'?
Is this dialogue 'oqranD approved ? qunnoq On Aug 18, 2017 4:38 PM, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
SuStel:
I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?*
With regards to the options of {chay' DaSov ?} and {chay' 'e' DaSov ?).
If you were asked "how would you characterize them ?", then would you say "they are wrong", "they are unacceptable", "they don't make sense", or "we don't know whether we can use them" ?
qunnoq
On Aug 18, 2017 4:26 PM, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 8/18/2017 8:56 AM, Lieven wrote:
Am 18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
As soon as he finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him "how do you know it (this fact) ?
Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the use of the prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the entire preceding speech/passage ?
Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of correctness.
a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no evidence this is correct.
b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence, maybe {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong.
c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say what you even used in your question: {chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?} "How do you know that fact?"
I find myself preferring *chay' bISov?*
-- SuStelhttp://trimboli.name
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