[Tlhingan-hol] Question about question words

[David Trimboli]

From: Josh Badgley [mailto:joshbadgley at hotmail.com] 

> But I also have noticed instances like this from ST3
> 
> Kruge: vaj Daleghpu' Then you have seen it?
> 
> And from PK
> 
> pu'HIch wIj Daleghpu' Have you seen my phaser pistol?
> 
> So does that mean that you don't always have to add -'a'?  Is it
> grammatically incorrect to add the interrogative particle onto a Type
> 7 suffix like -pu'?  

Either they're errors or they follow grammatical rules we haven't been
given. Or both. Usually Okrand will try to "explain" errors with new
rules when an opportunity arises (e.g., word order of toasts).

Best to follow the rules unless you have a special reason not to.

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