tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 13 12:37:21 1995
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Re: ye and thee
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ye and thee
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:39:27 EST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:28:01 -0500. <[email protected]>
"William H. Martin" <[email protected]> writes:
\ tlhIngan Hol DajatlhlaHbe'chugh vaj qatlh naDev SoHtaH?
^^^^^^^^^
Is it considered legal to use -chugh and vaj together like this?
In this case, we have -chugh turning a sentence into an adverbial; further
modifying the main sentence with "vaj" seems at least redundant, if not wrong.
Something like the English
*"If you do not speak Klingon, so why do you remain here?"
It would seem to make more sense to me to use one or the other, but
not both; in the "vaj"-only form, it would be two sentences:
tlhIngan Hol DajatlhlaHbe'chugh qatlh naDev SoHtaH?
tlhIngan Hol DajatlhlaHbe'. vaj qatlh naDev SoHtaH?
I dunno. "-chugh vaj" just feels wrong to me.
-marqoS
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