tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 15 17:11:33 1995
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 296
> 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.
nuqDaq jaHpu' "Hol"?? Qaghvammo', tera'ngan "scribe"wIj [*] vIrIQmoH!! :)
[*] wIj, to be derogatory rather than ungrammatical..?
>
> 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
"Answer me!" - "(Dah) tujang!" - vIparHaqu'! :)
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