[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: -Daq, and pronouns with -taH

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv]

I don't think that you've gotten a straight answer yet. 

Speaking as one who has used the language for many years and has a pretty good sense of normal spoken Klingon, I find it interesting that you have found a consistent inconsistency between STATEMENTS involving a pronoun-as-"to-be"-verb at a location {puchpa'Daq ghaHtaH HoDwI''e'} and QUESTIONS involving a pronoun-as-"to-be"-verb at a location {nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'}. One always uses {-taH} and the other never uses it. 

No one has managed to explain why it is normal to add {-taH} to this kind of statement. We simply accept it. No one has explained why this norm is not extended to questions. We simply accept it. 

{nuqDaq 'oHtaH puchpa''e'?} sounds as weird as {puchpa'Daq ghaH HoDwI''e'}. Neither is grammatically wrong, but both are abnormal. Deal with it. 

Sent from my iPad
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv

> On Apr 15, 2016, at 10:18 AM, "chransberry at gmail.com"<chransberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am a little confused on the matter of the interaction between -Daq and pronouns with -taH.
> 
> I think, from responses to my sentence exercises, that {Saj nujDaq bIHtaH} is preferred over {Saj nujDaq bIH}. So I would say {DujDaq jIHtaH} and {HuDDaq chaHtaH} etc. That's easy enough.
> 
> The confusion comes from a sentence I learned before I even joined the list, and a subject line soon after. They weren't confusing then, but now in light of this -taH rule I'm a bit confused. The sentences were {nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?} and {nuqDaq ghaH 'arHa'e'?}
> 
> So which is correct:
> {nuqDaq SoH?} 
> or
> {nuqDaq SoHtaH?}
> ?
> 
> And which of these is correct:
> {DujDaq 'oH De'wI''e'.}
> or
> {DujDaq 'oHtaH De'wI''e'.}
> ?
> 
> Thanks,
> -QISta'
> 
> Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless
> _______________________________________________
> Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20160417/67f8e5fc/attachment.html>