tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 28 22:20:35 1998
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Re: Nature phenomenon
ja' peHruS:
>"subject" luHutlh mu' {SIS} mu' {peD} je 'e' vIHar 'e' Datlhojmo' bIlugh
>mu' {peD} rur 'e' vIHar
>
>SKI: The further evidence I have "felt" that {SIS} takes no subject is that
>we have the parallel {peD}.
nuqjatlh? There's *exactly* as much evidence to indicate the appropriate
subject of {peD} as there is for {SIS} -- which is to say *none at all*.
I agree that the words seem to have a similar nature, but that apparent
fact can't be used to argue proper usage without any examples.
>Perhaps we will discover that the sky can rain cats and dogs. So far, I
>"feel" the "it rains" and "it snows" are the Klingon equivalents of the
>English idioms.
I'm slightly surprised that you reject out of hand the likelihood that
{SISlu'} is correct. If you "feel" that {SIS} has no subject, I would
expect that you'd use known Klingon grammar to indicate that lack. By
itself, {SIS} implies that there *is* a subject.
-- ghunchu'wI'