tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 27 21:01:42 1998
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Re: Babalon vaghDaq, qaStaH nuq??
>Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:05:21 -0800 (PST)
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>
>charghwI'vo':
>
>I enjoy that conversation is happening and I feel okay about
>letting grammatical errors slide in these settings, but when I
>see SuSvaj repeating the same error (the object of a verb with
>{-lu'} PRECEEDS the verb, SuSvaj!) and then I see a second
>person misusing a word ({joy'} is a VERB, NOT a NOUN), I feel a
>need to intervene before people get accustomed to these errors
>and it becomes pseudo-cannon/habit.
Yes. Thank you for doing it; I was counting on SOMEone to mention it. :)
>> *Sheridan* jonlu' 'e' nab *Clarke* 'ej
>> pe'vIl DIS *Sheridan* 'e' nIDlu'.
>
>pe'vIL DIS *Sheridan* net nID.
This doesn't work for me yet. I imagine the {pe'vIl} by rights belongs
before the {net}, but even that sounds strained. I thought the meaning was
just
pe'vIl *Sheridan* luDISmoH 'e' lunID
or some such. It doesn't sound sensible to say that one person tried that
someone else do something. Or maybe a -meH clause is in order.
~mark