tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 02 11:37:45 1998
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Re: KLBC : and
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC : and
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:37:02 -0700 (PDT)
---David Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> chobuQ tera'ngan vIHoH
> You threaten me. I kill the Terran.
>
> ChobuQ 'ej tera'ngan vIHoH
> You threaten me and I kill the Terran.
If I miss the misspelling of /chobuQ/, and if you understand that your
sentence above is not a threat, just two independent statements, like
"you eat pastrami and I play the guitar," then this is fine.
> chobuQ 'ej tera'ngan je romuluSngan vIHoH
> You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the Romulan.
>
> Did I get it right?
Not yet. I said:
> >See section 5.3. Read it twice. Then blink and read it again.
> >How would you say: "You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the
> >Romulan."
> >Look CAREFULLY where to put the second and. It's not where
> >you might think.
I guess you'd better read that section a fourth time, especially the
line that reads "The conjunctions joining nouns come after the final
noun."
Try again.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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