tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 22 08:09:35 1996
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Re: KLBC: Lumberjacks
>From the keyboard of Alan Anderson
> > How about {jIDalDI' jaghmey vIHoH} ?
>
> "When I am boring I kill enemies." Close, but not quite reasonable.
Actually, reasonable. When I'm boring someone and they don't seem happy
about it, I have to find some way to get their attention. }:-)
> >How would I say "When _life_ is boring, I kill enemies" ?
> >I can't think of how to put the noun "life" into the Subordinate Clause.
>
> It's just the sentence "life is boring" with a {-DI'} suffix on the verb.
> {DalDI' yIn jaghmey vIHoH.}
Ah! For some reason, I thought I couldn't put a Subject in the
Subordinate Clause. (No, I have no idea why I thought that.)
qatlho'
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