tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 18 06:54:26 1996
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Re: thursday:today
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: thursday:today
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 06:54:26 -0700
> I don't understand Lawrence's usage, though. It seems to me that the real
> topic of the sentence ought to be the *story*, not the storyteller. I can
> translate it fine: "As for him, why did he tell it to us?" It very neatly
> switches the topic away from the story, but I don't see a reason to switch
> topics.
Let me try again (and probably for the last time).
SENTENCE ONE: it's about the story.
SENTENCE TWO: also about the story.
SENTENCE THREE: a shift from the story to the person who posted it. So, why did
HE post it?
I've got no problem with your translation of the sentence as I rendered it. It
works fine. If that's not the direction you wanted to go with it, that's okay,
I'm fine with that. But, if you had wanted to go in that direction, it works
well.
Lawrence
(who is amazed that a post that everyone seems to think shouldn't have been
posted should cause so much discussion -- but at least it's Klingon discussion!)
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