tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 03 11:46:25 1998
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Re: KLBC : and
- From: "David Baxter" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC : and
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 19:48:08 +0100
If I haven't got this right then I need reading lessons.
chobuQ 'ej tera'ngan romuluSngan je vIHoH.
You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the Romulan.
David Baxter
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Date: 02 August 1998 19:55
Subject: Re: KLBC : and
>---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.
>==
>
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