[Tlhingan-hol] tera' Hovtay'Daq PLUTO HurDaq bIHtaH'a' latlh yuQmey?

Bellerophon, modeler bellerophon.modeler at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 12:05:03 PST 2015


So putting the quantity noun first in a noun phrase began as sloppy usage?
Klingon noun phrases do seem to be used for every possible meaning of
genitive construction. Logically, "all (of) Klingons" would be
*{tlhInganpu' Hoch}.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:53 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

>
> 'ach yuQna' pagh yuQHom bIH?


bIghel'a' pagh bIja''a'? I was recently trying to translate either/or
questions into Klingon and found they did not mean what I intended. I
wasn't sure whether the result was either/or or yes/no? vulqangan
romuluSngan ghap chaH'a'? Clearer is vulqangan chaH'a' pagh romuluSngan...

~'eD

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