tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 16 21:45:54 1995
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Re: haiku
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: haiku
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:45:59 -0500
Qogh wrote:
>jaghwIj'a' nujvo'
>nIjtaH Doqbogh Iw'. Dunbej!
>jI'ItHa'. yay'a'!
I wrote:
>...(This *is* poetry, so I won't complain about the naked noun at the end.)
~mark writes:
>There's nothing wrong with that; nobody said a sentence had to end with the
>line. The noun-phrase is simply the object of the sentence, whose verb
>follows.
The "naked noun" to which I was referring is not the one at the end of the
first line, but the one at the end of the entire piece: {yay'a'}. No verb
precedes OR follows it; it's apparently an exclamation. I've seen this in
Klingon Haiku a couple of times now.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj