tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 15 21:59:27 1998
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Re: KLBC - pabwIj vIlughmoH 'ej mu'tlheghmey chu' vIqon
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC - pabwIj vIlughmoH 'ej mu'tlheghmey chu' vIqon
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
---Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ja' Qov:
> >tlhIngan jIH - I am a Klingon (no added emphasis)
> >tlhIngan jIH'e' - *I* am a Klingon.
>
> Um, can we do this? TKD 6.3, page 67, uses {tlhIngan jIH} as an
> example, but the paragraph immediately before the example says:
>
> Noun suffixes are not appropriate.
>
> Maybe to emphasize the "I" in {tlhIngan jIH}, one says
> {tlhIngan jIH jIH}. Or maybe not.
tlhIngan jIH'e' is what comes out of my mouth when I think that, and
I'd be surprised to learn it's wrong, but I acknowledge that it's
dubious and shouldn't have been said by a BG.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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