tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 15 11:18:53 1998
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another try at net (was: Re: relative clause attempt)
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: another try at net (was: Re: relative clause attempt)
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:17:29 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:08:41 -0700 (PDT) K'ryntes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I gave up too soon. Here's another "net" attempt...
>
> pIj Suv puqpu' net tu'.
majQa'! This works. "One finds that children often fight."
> toH! tlhIngan jIH'e'!
Well, this almost works. Pronouns can be used as nouns or verbs,
but not both at the same time. In {tlhIngan jIH,} clearly {jIH}
is a verb. If not, what is? You can also say, {tlhIngan jIHtaH.}
In other words, you can add a verb suffix to a pronoun while you
use it as a verb.
You can also add a noun suffix to a pronoun while you use it as
a noun:
jIH'e' HoS law' SoH HoS puS.
You've used the pronoun {jIH} as a verb and then put a noun
suffix on it. That doesn't work. It's tempting to do, and I can
tell what you meant to say, but it doesn't work.
> K'ryntes
charghwI' 'utlh