tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 27 12:26:20 1993
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Instrumentals, and just a wee bit more on relative clauses..
- From: (Mark E. Shoulson) <[email protected]>
- Subject: Instrumentals, and just a wee bit more on relative clauses..
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 13:30:51 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Jacques Guy's message of Fri, 27 Aug 1993 15:16:23 +1000 (EST) <[email protected]>
>From: [email protected] (Jacques Guy)
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 15:16:23 +1000 (EST)
>So I hold that "pu' vIlaQ Duj vIQaw'pu'" is a sentence made of
>two, consecutive, independent clauses. Test case: how would you
>say "Veni, vidi, vici" in Klingon? jIghoS, vIlegh, vIchargh, no?
>Is it a matter of punctuation then?
That's how I view it, more a matter of punctuation or asyndeton. You're
basically saying "pu' vIlaQ 'ej Duj vIQaw'pu'" but leaving out the "'ej".
I don't think punctuation or conjunctions should have to be mandatory.
~mark