tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 16 11:35:13 2003
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Re: 'aH tIQ
At 03:25 PM 4/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
> > But see, they're the same thing in this case. Otherwise, you do have a
> > serious issue with sentence fragments. We have to identify what
> > /wanI'vetlh/ *is*. Is it the event of an angry mob thinking or being able
> > to think? If so, why use /-chugh/? The event is not "if a mob can
> > think". In that case, it would be "QublaH ghom'a'. vaj qubbej
> > wanI'vetlh" "Mobs can think. Then that event is rare."
Now THAT sounds clunky to me. If you start out by saying "mobs can think"
then it sounds like you are making a blanket statement that mobs are in
fact able to think. If so, then why is the event rare?
SuSvaj