tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 25 06:21:44 1998
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{neH}
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: {neH}
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 98 09:17:22 EST
ja'pu' charghwI':
>> tlhIngan Hol vIlo' neH. lo'laHbe' be'nalwIj.
>
>As stated, you either mean, "I merely use the Klingon
>language," or "She wants me to use the Klingon language." I
>suspect you wanted to say, "I use only the Klingon language,"
>or "Only I use the Klingon language." The former would be
>{tlhIngan Hol neH vIlo',} while the latter would be {tlhIngan
>Hol vIlo' jIH neH.}
ja' SI'IluD:
>I thought that <neH> came at the end of the sentence to mean "only,
>merely, or just". I just looked it up and found that is does follow the
>verb, but only trivializes the verb. I had meant to say the former in
>your response (Only I use the Klingon Language.)
Actually, that would be the *latter* of charghwI"s sentences.
{...jIH neH} "only I..."
-- ghunchu'wI'