tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:24:24 1998
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Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:23:33 -0800
At 10:08 98-01-23 -0800, charghwI' wrote:
}According to David Trimboli:
}>
}> -----Original Message-----
}> From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
}> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
}> Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 6:52 PM
}> Subject: Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
}>
}>
}> >edy writes:
}> >>ghew HoHpu' puq vaj Quch puq
}> >>(The child has killed the bug then she is happy)
}> >
}> >We haven't seen {vaj} used as a conjunction in canon, unless it's
}> >together with {-chugh}. I accept it, but I don't write it that way
}> >as often as I use {-mo'} for the same purpose.
}>
}> How about
}>
}> nuHlIj DawIvpu', vaj yISuv!
}> You have chosen your weapon, so fight! (TKD 151)
}
}The caution that I think needs to be given here, especially to
}beginners, is that {vaj} does mean "thus" as a conjunction, but
}it does not mean "then" in the sense of, "I did A and then I
}did B and then I did C." In both these cases, there is a sense
}of cause linking the two clauses. The bug died, thus the child
}is happy. You have chosen your weapon for a reason. The reason
}is to fight, so fight!
}
}"The targ caught the ball, then ate it," would NOT be a good
}use of the word {vaj} as a conjunction.
}
}> SuStel
}> Stardate 98061.9
}
}charghwI'
jIQochbe'. {vaj} does not mean then as in "after that", only as in "so."
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian