tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 04 08:10:05 2004
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Re: expressing opinion vs. fact
On 4 Feb 2004 at 7:46, [email protected] wrote:
> the type 3 qualification noun suffixes and the type 6 qualification verb
> suffixes can be used to indicate the speaker's opinion of what is being said.
> thus the sentence "Mara is beautiful" as an opinion should have one of the three
> verb suffixes, depending on the speaker's actual opinion of mara's beauty.
> e.g., if the speaker's opinion is definite, then the sentence would be {'IHbej
> mara'}. the absence of such a qualification suffix would imply factuality.
qatlh? nap DIvI' Hol mu'tlhegh, vaj ngoDHey 'oH. 'ach vuD 'oH net Sov.
'IH mara' - "Mara is beautiful"
'IHchu' mara' - "Mara is absolutely beautiful"
'IHbej mara' - "Mara sure is beautiful"
'IHlaw' mara' - "Apparently, Mara is beautiful" (chaq wej mara' legh jatlhwI')
'IHba' mara' - "Mara is obviously beautful"
vuD bIH Hoch'e'. DachDI' Segh jav mojaq, ngoD 'oH 'e' 'oSnISbe' mu'tlhegh. teH 'e' Qub
jatlhwI' 'e' neH 'oS. 'u''e' teHnISbe'.
> lay'tel SIvten
-Sangqar
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