tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 01 22:37:11 1995
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: }} KLBC!!!
- From: "R.B Franklin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }} KLBC!!!
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 19:37:11 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Chris Nielsen wrote:
> If I wanted to say "Start the engines and I'll kill you!", would this work?
>
> jonta'mey Dachu' 'ej qaHoH!
{jonta'mey Dachu'} means "You are starting the engines." When you are
telling someone to do something, you use the imperative prefixes. (See
Sec. 4.1.2.)
jonta'mey yIchu'. Start the engines.
{jonta'mey yIchu' 'ej qaHoH} literally means "Start the engines and I'll
kill you". You are giving a command to start the engines and you are
stating you are going to kill him. It implies that you are going to kill
him whether or not he actually does start the engines.
If you want to say "If you start the engines, I'll kill you", then you
would say this differently: jonta'mey Dachu'chugh qaHoH.
This implies whether or not you kill him depends on whether he starts the
engines.
> Chris
yoDtargh