tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 05 20:46:59 1996
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Re: Is it out there?
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Is it out there?
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 23:49:20 -0500
[regarding an official "TKD supplement"]
qen qriS'ey writes:
>net vIlajbej. qechlIj majQa'.
As Beginners' Grammarian, I am compelled to point out errors and to
try to correct them where appropriate.
{net} is used in the specific case of a sentence-as-object construction
when the second verb has a null prefix but the intended subject is "one"
(unspecified) instead of "he", "she", "it", or "they". Your verb has a
definite subject -- "me" -- indicated by the prefix {vI-}, so {net} is
not an appropriate object here. See TKD 6.2.5 for a complete discussion
of sentences as objects, and the correct use of {'e'} and {net}.
It seems you intended {net} to mean "that", as "I certainly accept that."
Unfortunately, this is probably the wrong kind of "that". The pronouns
{net} and {'e'} refer to a complete sentence, the last one stated, but I
think you wanted to refer to "that [idea]." Klingon grammar doesn't let
you leave out the noun here the way English does, because this kind of
"that" is indicated with the noun suffix {-vetlh} (see TKD 3.3.4).
If you indeed meant "I certainly accept that idea", then you should say
{qechvetlh vIlajbej}.
{majQa'} is an exclamation, and stands as a separate "sentence" by itself.
It's not a verb, so you can't use it with a noun as a subject or object.
If you want to say that some specific thing is great, you can use the verb
{Dun}. If you meant "Your idea is great", you need to say {Dun qechlIj}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj