tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 29 06:28:48 1998
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Re: Nature phenomenon
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Nature phenomenon
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:28:32 CST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:23:29 -0800
ghunchu'wI' said
> 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.
>
I'm not responding specifically to ghunchu'wI', but more generally...
I always felt that even {-lu'} means there _is_ a subject, it's just
not known or general (and in fact, looking up TKD 4.2.5 lists these two
along with "indefinite" which I read as "undefined"(?) but still there)
and I really don't see why "one rains"* should be preferable to "it rains".
It looks to me more like a matter of style.
* this only sounds weird in English, because "one" can only refer to
intelligent beings, whlie {-lu'} can refer to anything (!)
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]