tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 10 15:39:28 1996
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'e' and all that rot...
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- Subject: 'e' and all that rot...
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:42:05 -0400
>> **{chech paqvam ghItlhpu' 'e'} = "the (action of him having written this
>>book) is drunk" seems tempting, but I saw once that 'e' clauses can't be
used
>>as subjects of verbs; and how to tell where the 'e' clause starts?.
>You're correct about 'e' not being usable as the subject of a sentence.
>See TKD, p. 65 (Section 6.2.5):
>"They ['e' and net] are *always* treated as the *object* of the verb..."
>(emphasis added).
This makes me think of a couple things I've wanted to ask about 'e'.
First, can I use 'e' in series? (I've seen folks do this, and most
of the time it makes sense to me.) Example: wIHoH 'e' manIDnIS
'e' vIQub. "I think (that) we need to try to kill them." Is this
grammatically correct?
Second, I came across something while writing a note to someone which
I thought made sense. I wanted to use *'e'mo'*, meaning "because of
that (previous topic)". I saw 'e' in the word list as a pronoun, so I
thought it might work. ::shrug:: Thoughts?
Lt Barrows
*USS Deliverance*Daq DeghwI'
P.S.: A tagline thought: Someone's bumper sticker at the qep'a' read,
"Human by birth, Klingon by choice". I got as far as "Human jIboghta'"
then ran into trouble with the second bit. I seem to have this enormous
problem with the "to be" thingy in tlhIngan Hol. I'd sit up and
try to rewrite it, but it's past my bedtime. {{:)> Writing myself
a note to get back to it, probably at work tomorrow. (Great grammar I
have, eh? {{:)>)
Qapla'