tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 14 10:57:24 1998
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Top Gun reply to KLBC
- From: Tim Hagg <[email protected]>
- Subject: Top Gun reply to KLBC
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:57:08 EDT
Qov responds;
You do not understand the SAO construction. The word {'e'} is a pronoun
that represents the immediately preceding sentence when that sentence acts as
the object of the next verb. SENTENCE as OBJECT. This is its ONLY use. It
does not ever mean "them."
I understand it a little. When I looked up the superlative construction in
the TKD all the law’/puS examples were sentences. So I thought that the
law’/puS construction was a sentence. Now given that, ‘e’ in the second
sentence dose not mean “them” it means “that”. So in English the two
sentences are like;
“These guys are the best. Iceman is better than that.”
I meant the first sentence to be an object. Now the law’/puS may be special
but there is nothing that says you can’t use pronouns with it. You say that
po’ is intransitive and takes no object but the law’/puS makes the verb act
like a comparative. Two different things are being compared; X is better than
Y. X is the subject and Y is an object(a prepositional object). So maybe 'e'
can't be used as a prepositional object but that's why I was asking for the
BG's help. Or maybe the law'/puS construction is two sentences in Klingon and
I know 'e' can't refer to more than one sentence.
Oh well, now that I have explained myself; I’m off to write my five sentences.
qatlho’
tIm