tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 21 15:30:07 2003
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Re: RE: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
From: "Dr. Jeremy DM Cowan" <[email protected]>
> From: David Trimboli [mailto:[email protected]]
> Subject: Re: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
>
> >jIyajbe'. DelmeH pab 'oH tlhIngan Hol mu'ghom'e' qar'a'? chut chu'
> tu'lu'bej, 'a DelmeH pabna' 'oH.
>
> What does "DelmeH pab" mean? How do I parse that? "Grammar to describe
> it," doesn't make any sense to me.
Purpose clauses can modify nouns as well as verbs. For instance, /ghojmeH
taj/ "knife for learning."
I used /DelmeH pab/ as "grammar for describing." This was my attempt to
express "descriptive grammar," a concept we have no knowledge of how to
communicate in Klingon. I thought it was marginally better than /DelwI'
pab/ "thing which describes' grammar."
Perhaps we could be more explicit and say /pab DelmeH paq/ "book for
describing grammar."
SuStel
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