tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 14 19:10:48 1995
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 294
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 294
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 22:10:43 -0500
Matt Treyvaud writes:
>mu'tlheghvam ghitlhlu'meH tera'ngan lo'lu'taHvIS, wot lo'be'lu'. "My
>questions:" chaq "are" jIlo'nIS. "bIH yu'ghachwIj:" :)
"While one uses a Terran in order to write this sentence, one doesn't find
a verb." This sounds like you dictate your sentences to a Terran scribe.
I was whining about your [excessive, IMHO] use of {-ghach}. You've
added a "to be" to a nominalized verb, which is [again, IMHO] similar
to putting wheels on a rowboat that was built by removing the wheels
from a wagon. Where English often talks about things "being", I see
tlhIngan Hol focusing on action. I believe that trying to force the
verb "question" to act as a noun goes against the spirit of the verb
itself. Instead of "this is a question", I'd say "I question" -- or
better yet, "Answer me!"
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj