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Re: be' neH neHbe' be'

ngabwI' ([email protected])

• From: "ngabwI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: be' neH neHbe' be'
• Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:26:21 -0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:18 PM
Subject: be' neH neHbe' be'


> Just thinking...
> Is there a difference:

Barely, but with the examples given, it's not a very important difference.

>    vIvemmoH vIneHbe'

"I do not want to cause her to wake up"

>    vIvemmoHbe' vIneH

"I want to not cause her to wake up."

As taD has pointed out, I, too, see this as a distinction mostly on what is
negated.
In the first, you don't *want* to wake her, in the second, it seems that you
probably still want her awake, you simply want no hand in it. (Kinda. The
two sentences are so close in meaning, I think this explanation probably
overstates the differences.)

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org
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