tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 07 18:50:29 1996
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Re: KLBC - subordinate clauses
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC - subordinate clauses
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 21:51:41 -0500
charghwI' suggests:
>nIteb jIHegh vIneHbe'.
I considered {nIteb} and rejected it because it seems to refer to
"doing" something on one's own. I have a feeling that the above
sentence could be interpreted as a desire to have others' help in
dying, and not merely as a desire to have others nearby.
>...and ghunchu'wI' made a little error relating to the
>special nature of the verb {neH}. Most verbs used this way
>require the pronoun {'e'} to represent the first sentence as
>the object of the second sentence. Verbs of speech and {neH} do
>not require (and probably don't really tolerate) the pronoun
>{'e'}. The corrected version of ghunchu'wI''s message is:
>
>jImobtaHvIS jIHegh vIneHbe'.
Qu'vatlh. jabbI'IDwIj DalughmoHmo' qatlho'neS.
Oops! Thank you for correcting my error, sir.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj