tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 14 16:01:24 2002
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Re: multiple N-ns5 in the "header area"
From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>
> 'ISqu':
> > > wa'Hu' Qe'Daq yajHa'ghachmo' tlhoS yaSvaD nay' muj nob jabwI'.
> > > [Yesterday in the restaurant, due to misunderstanding, the waiter
almost
> > > gave the officer the wrong dish.]
>
> This sounds good to me, but I might have re-ordered the elements as:
>
> yajHa'ghachmo' wa'Hu' Qe'Daq tlhoS yaSvaD nay' muj nob jabwI'.
> Due to a misunderstanding, yesterday in the restaurant the waiter
> almost gave the officer the wrong dish.
>
> as {-mo'} phrases tend to precede the main clause.
Elsewhere (the TKD Addendum, I think), Okrand tells us that time elements
tend to come before everything else.
SuStel
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