tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 04 11:19:42 1994
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Re: Ponder this....
- From: Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Ponder this....
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 94 14:14:55 EST
[email protected] writes:
\ Here is an interesting query.
\
\ Suppose you have a multi verb sentence like "My computer is malfunctioning
\ so to fix it I'll need to travel."
\
\ QapHa' De'wI'wIj vaj tI'lu'meH jIlengnIS.
I don't think that "vaj" can be used as a conjunction in Klingon; and I think
the Klingon casting here would be much better as two sentences.
So we end up with:
QapHa' De'wI'wIj. tI'lu'meH jIlengnIS.
"My computer is malfunctioning. In order that someone fixes it, I need to
travel."
(I would probably have translated "In order to fix it" as "In order that I
can fix it: vItI'laHmeH. But anyway . . . )
Now, onto your question. First, adverbials do not necessarily go in the
front of the sentence - as stated in the addendum, they go at the beginning
of the object-verb-subject construction. In a multiple-phrase construct,
they would go at the beginning of the particular object-verb-subject
construction that they're intended to modify. So:
1) My computer malfunctioned slightly . .
loQ QapHa'pu' DewI'wIj. tI'lu'meH jIlengnIS.
2) ...so to fix it a little bit
QapHa' DewI'wIj. loQ tI'lu'meH jIlengnIS
3) ...so to fix it I must do a little travelling.
QapHa' DewI'wIj. tI'lu'meH loQ jIlengnIS.
In this last case, we really have two adverbs - one adverbial, and one clause
functioning as an adverb. This is similar to the case of a time referent and
another adverbial, as cited in the addendum - they can't both be at the
beginning, obviously. With "loQ" at the beginning of the whole thing, I
would interpret it as modifying the modifier (tI'lu'meH); in the latter
position, it can't modify anything else but "jIlengniS".
-marqoS
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