tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 20 13:46:07 1994
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Re: SkyBox card SP3
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- Subject: Re: SkyBox card SP3
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 94 01:42:11 EDT
>>> motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhingan Duj jIH'a'.
>Looks that way! Either that or it's the long-awaited >sentence-as-subject
>canon, which I don't believe.
[...]
>It would be *really* nice if we
>had a nice construction that made sentences function adverbially...
>><charghwI'
>~mark
Oh, and just how would a SAA work? Are you talking about the "as if" clause
issue, which occured before I joined the list, but which I got to read in
HolQeD Round Table. In that case, I suggest you go back and look at Krankor's
solution.
"I walk as if my shoes are heavy."
{'ugh waqwIj 'e' vIDataHvIS jIyIt}
This construction is still quite rare, and can be easily recasted into
constructs that language better supports.
As for WillMartin's suggestion that it might be some kind of SAS, I can't
really agree. I haven't the foggiest what the English was supposed to be
anymore, but I read this literally as:
"The main Klingon ship monitor shows hard info(s?) to be able to find targets
are usual."
The double verbs are the problem. The {-meH} clause sticks to {De'}. I doubt
Okrand would forget such a useful adverbial, and then go so far as to invent
another from an already existing verb. Yikes.
But otherwise these SkyboxCards have shown some relatively excellent Klingon.
I hope to see more.
Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos