tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 17 11:41:39 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: lurSa'
From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
> patlh luDub 'e' reH lunIDtaH
>
> So ... when we put an adverb modifying the second sentence *before* 'e',
> it's ...
> * ... with knowledge of this canon, but because we think it sounds dumb
> there?
> * ... because we were doing it before this canon, and we're too stubborn to
> change on the basis of one awkward sentence?
> * ... because we have better canon or word of Marc that it should precede
> the object, like every other pronoun?
> * ... because by a heretofore unrevealed etymology, the word 'e' is
> actually related to the -'e' on an object like HaqwI''e' DaH yISam, allowing
> the adverb to move through the object?
> * ... just me that does that and everyone else puts their adverbs behind the
> SAO pronoun, and has been too polite to tell me?
* ... because the rules in TKD say that adverbials (reH) come before
objects ('e'), and we don't know why this sole example breaks that rule.
I happen to believe that Marc fell into the common trap of thinking of
{'e'} as a conjunction rather than an object.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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