tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 22 07:39:00 1993
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Re: themscrewyrelativeclauses
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: themscrewyrelativeclauses
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 10:38:20 EST
On Nov 22, 9:38am, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> What about "I need to get fuel for the ship in which I fled"?
> Now we have "Duj" which needs "-Daq" on it for the inside of the relative
> clause, and "-vaD" on it for the main clause. Reversing thoise won't help.
> Using the pronoun anaphora would give us ?{DujDaq vIHa'pu'bogh 'oHvaD nIn
> vIghajnIS}.
Again, I'd go for two simpler sentences:
jIjonHa''eghmeH Dujvetlh vIlo'ta'
DaH DujvetlhvaD nIn vIneH
It just seems SOOOOOO much clearer. It doesn't create a precident for
future grammatical convolutions, but it gets the MEANING across better.
-- charghwI'