tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 22 18:25:59 1998
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Re: Nature phenomenon
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Nature phenomenon
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 21:26:23 -0500
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Qov <[email protected]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 6:51 PM
>Subject: Re: Nature phenomenon
>
>
>>The long answer is the thread of arguments and conflicting advice that this
>>post will engender.
>
>If you insist. I find it hard to believe (though not impossible) that
>Klingon would have verbs which *cannot* have any logical subject. Qov's
>suggestion that {SIS} and {peD} and so forth use the indefinite subject
>suffix {-lu'} advocates this idea.
>
>I think we just have to find out what the proper subject for these verbs is.
>Perhaps it is {muD} "atmosphere." Since we do know that {muD Dotlh}
>"atmosphere's status" is the correct phrase to use when asking about the
>weather (see HolQeD 2:4), it would be logical to say exactly what the
>atmosphere is doing in response to this question.
>
>tlhIngan wa': HurDaq muD Dotlh nuq?
>("What's the weather like outside?")
>
>tlhIngan cha': SIStaH. (or, {SIStaH muD})
>("It's raining.")
>
>SuStel
>Stardate 98057.7
SIStaH muD
replace muD with a pronoun. allowed.
SIStaH 'oH
drop the unnecessary pronoun; brings us back to...
SIStaH
which Qov doesn't like because the [it] in "it's raining" is an English
idiom (or something like that)
DloraH
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