tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 16 09:32:46 1996

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Re: Hello.



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>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:30:20 -0700
>From: Robert Darke <[email protected]>

>ghItlhpu' je ~mark:

>[Is {je} in the right place ? TKD 5.3 - after the verb ? Or should it be
>{ghItlhpu' ~mark je:} ??]

Now this is an interesting one.  According to TKD, it goes where you put
it, after the verb.  And indeed, we've all been doing just that for just
the same reason.  And I believe it's right.  But I have a sort of hunch,
totally unsupported, that Okrand actually would have used "~mark je" and
wasn't thinking of it when he wrote the rule in TKD.  I'm not suggesting
ANYONE do that!  No, the TKD rule is what we should do and what we *do*
do.  I just hope we can make sure Okrand remembers that's what he wrote
before he gives us too many counterexamples! :)

A digression, and unsupported in fact or rumor.  Just something that I've
been pondering for a while.  Your usage is right.

~mark

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