tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 04 06:38:06 1997
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Re: More on "jIjatlh" et al.
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: More on "jIjatlh" et al.
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 97 13:35:46 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> Of course, as soon as I saw something like:
>
> tlhIngan Hol jIjatlh I said "Klingon language"
> and
> tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh I speak Klingon
>
> certain ideas crept into my head. What other verbs does this work
> with? Or to put it another way, what is it about direct quotations that
> makes this work?
>
> For example, could I say:
>
> ngevwI' Hegh jIleghbe'
>
> to indicate that I have not yet seen the play "Death of a Salesman"?
I don't think this is the case. Okrand specifically told us that this sort of
thing works for verbs of saying. The point is that the quotation is not the
object; the sentence is complete without it.
It's *possible*, but I really think that it has to be a verb of saying. The
name of a book or movie refers to that thing.
> Or what about:
>
> cha' vengmey lut jIlaD
>
> to say that I have read "A Tale of Two Cities"?
"Moby Dick" vIlaDDI' rIntaH "cha' vengmey lut" vIlaD.
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