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Re: relative clause attempt

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: relative clause attempt
• Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:12:22 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>
> Now I will resort to something I learned from Conversational Klingon...
>
>  HIQaH!  tlhInganbe' jIH!
>
> K'ryntes


Assuming you're not trying to say "I'm a Klingon woman!" (tlhIngan be' jIH),
make sure you put the verb suffix on the pronoun in these verbless sentences,
which some people call PAV ("pronoun as verb") constructions:

 tlhIngan jIH.
 I am a Klingon.  CK

 tlhIngan SoH'a'?
 Are you a Klingon?  CK

 tlhIngan jIHbe'!
 I am not a Klingon! CK

There's another example in The Klingon Way:

 loD Quch jIHbe'.
 I am not a merry man. [TKW p.206]



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 Ca'Non Master of the Klingons                              lis est."
       Horace (Ars Poetica)

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