tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 25 18:16:28 2002
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Re: to'nech 71-80
At 12:38 2002-04-20 -0500, Alan Anderson wrote:
>That brings me to the other point which I didn't see addressed explicitly:
>so far as we know, Klingon uses only *direct* quotes. Fixing the verb of
>saying, your {DujlIj luvoq tIja'!} says "Tell them, 'They trust your
>instincts.'" If you want to tell them to trust your instincts, you have to
>say to them "Trust my instincts."
Hm, that would put it in good company. I am fairly sure Persian works like
that. It's certainly a tidy way to avoid the whole question of what to do
with the tense/aspect in the indirect-discourse clause.
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Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/