tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 23 15:53:55 1997
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RE: KLBC: "... or is he a snugiraffe"
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: "... or is he a snugiraffe"
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 97 22:27:58 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Eskil Heyn Olsen wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, David Trimboli wrote:
>
> > > I broke it down to "In denmark a klingon spy lives" used as object to
> > > "ghaH".
> > You cannot do this. {ghaH} is a pronoun, not a verb with an object. What
> > you
>
> Yes it's a pronoun, but TKD 6.3 says I can use them as verbs. The trouble
> was then putting together the stating of a "to be" thing with a sentence
> containing a verb such as "He is a big klingon" as {tlhIngan tIn 'e'
> ghaH} or even as {tlhIngan tIn ghaH} ?
{ghaH} is simply not a sentence by itself, and therefore cannot also include
an object like {'e'}.
The second sentence works, but is there some reason you can't just say {tIn
tlhIngan} "The Klingon is big"? It means the same thing, is more concise, and
is verb-based, not noun-based.
> > *Denmark*Daq yIntaHbogh tlhIngan ghoqwI' ghaH'a'?
> > Is he a Klingon spy who lives in Denmark?
>
> No thanks, I tried not to phrase the first sentence as a question, but as
> a fact : "He is a klingon spy living in denmark". And the next as an
> afterthougt : "... or is he an emissary ?". (allthough the sentence might
> make more sense if it was "He is an klingon emissary living in denmark...
> or is he a spy ?", but it's not my sentence and they are structurally
> alike).
Well, if the question is really an afterthought, there's still no need to give
it a sentence conjunction.
*Denmark*Daq yIntaH tlhIngan Duy. ghoqwI' ghaH'a'?
The Klingon emissary is living in Denmark. Is he a spy?
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SuStel
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