[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: "Which" and uses of question words

[Bellerophon, modeler]

choQuchmoHpu' Qov. qechvam maw'vaD naD puS qotlhbogh Danobpu'.
~'eD

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

> I wouldn't understand it at all. I would guess that the person had
> mispronounced nuQtaH: "the officer is annoying the child".
>
> My next guess would be that the writer/speaker was trying to use nuq to
> take the place of a verb, instead of a pronoun or a noun, and was trying to
> say, "what is the officer doing to the child." I would reject that usage.
> I'd call it creative and interesting, though.
>
> I can't make any meaning work by analogy with puq ghaHtaH yaS'e',
>
> - Qov
>
> (On smartphone which autocorrected puq to pIq.  (Yes, complete with
> shifted I) I guess I don't write about kids much)
>
> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 14:23, Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > For {puq nuqtaH yaS} I seem to see "The officer is_being or continues
> which child?", i.e. "which child grew up to become the officer?"
> >
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