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Re: S99

ngabwI' ([email protected])

• From: "ngabwI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: S99
• Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 07:40:32 -0400
• References: <[email protected]>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: S99

> > Not quite. The only things that *must* come at the beginning of a
sentenc=
> e
> > are a "timestamp" or an adverbial. {retlhDaq} is a "position stamp", if
y=
> ou
> > will, not an adverbial. According to TKD, the order of elements like
thes=
> e
> > is unimportant. {-Daq} statements can come at the beginning or the end.
> >=20
> really? according to TKD, p.60:
>
> "Any noun in the sentence indicating something other than
> subject or object comes first, before the object noun. Such
> nouns usually end in a Type 5 noun suffix (section 3.3.5)."

DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.

I've seriously got to reread TKD...

> IMO, the "bare" sentence is {He rethlDaq 'oHtaH}, everything else
> is there to modify {He}, qar'a'?

maQochbe'

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org
HovpoH 701832.1

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