[Tlhingan-hol] Canon for answering negative questions

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Likely {'umbe'} means "not qualified", while {'umHa'} means "disqualified".

On May 5, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Brad Wilson <bmacliam at aol.com> wrote:

>  Expanding on something SuStel wrote:
> >>> Klingon can't be misunderstood this way because it combines the "is-not" with the "not-qualified" into a single word, "not-is-qualified."
> A) Isn't the man qualified?
> B) Is the man not qualified?
> C) Is the man unqualified?
> Being that {'um} is a "verb of state", it may turn on the use of {-Ha'} or {-be'}, or perhaps some more complicated.
> I would equate B=C, and possibly say {'umHa''a' loD?}, although it's been pointed out that this would likely mean he was qualified once, and now is not.
> To me, {'umbe''a' loD?} is A.
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