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Re: imperative with VS9 (-bogh)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: imperative with VS9 (-bogh)
• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:01:17 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

ja' lay'tel SIvten:
>...In English the q.v. is used parenthetically as a reference...

bImISchu'.  The "q.v." isn't English.

> In your rephrasing the emphasis shifts from "QIn
> ngeHpu' vavwI'" to "QIn yIlegh".

In the original phrasing, the emphasis *I* come away with is the extreme
weirdness of the attempted grammar.  Any particular nuance of meaning is
overwhelmed by it.

If you want to emphasize {QIn ngeHpu' vavwI'}, just say it.  Don't
interrupt it with an imperative *or* a relative-clause marker.  Definitely
don't use both at once!  There's a fundamental problem with what you're
trying to do.  Klingon is so much easier to understand if you leave things
in small chunks.  Try to avoid cramming multiple ideas into a single
sentence.

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