tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 27 22:28:31 1996
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RE: KLBC Buy me a drink
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC Buy me a drink
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 96 23:51:08 UT
December 27, 1996 5:30 PM, jatlh HurghwI':
> jatlh SuStel:
> >The solution: either name the drink: {HIqwIj qIj yIDIl!}, or use an {'e'}
> >sentence: {jItlhutlh 'e' yIDIl!} There's no reason that there *has* to be
a
> >noun for "drink." Maybe there even is, but it has not been revealed.
>
> I realize that there was a little discussion about this recently, but I'm
> still not comfortable with <jItlhutlh 'e' yIDIl>. To me this means "Buy that
> I drink." Not buy so that I drink, though. It just doesn't make any sense to
> me. When you use 'e' you refer to the whole previous sentence as a phrase or
> thought. You can "think it," or "disagree with it," or whatever, but you
> can't "buy it." It just doesn't sit right. Anyway, what about <jItlhutlhmeH
> yIDIl>?
{DIl} is "pay for," not "buy." There's a bit of a difference there.
{'e'} refers to the entire previous sentence as an object. This makes it act
like a noun.
{(jItlhutlh) yIDIl} is what we're striving for here; {jItlhutlh} is the object
of {yIDIl}. "Pay for --" The thing that is being paid for is going in the
blank. In this case, I don't see why {jItlhutlh} is wrong. If I said
{tlhutlhlI'ghachwIj yIDIl} you wouldn't have a problem.
jItlhutlh 'e' yIDIl.
I drink. Pay for that.
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SuStel
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