tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 16 08:53:41 1994
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Re: introductions
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: introductions
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 11:53:36 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Niall Hosking" at Sep 16, 94 3:43 pm
According to Niall Hosking:
[deleted stuff about use of the pronoun {'e'}]
> So what happens in constructions like "Shut up!":
>
> {bijatlh 'e' yimev} ?
>
> As far as I can see, it says: You speak, you stop that.
That's close. In Klingon, it is two separate sentences, and the
second sentence is imperitive. A better translation is: "You
speak. Stop that!" That fairly clearly means, "Shut up!"
> How does the English verb "stop" work here? It seems to have no direct
> object - it refers to another verb. Not an identical case, but one that
> is similarly undefined by your example.
It's direct object is the pronoun {'e'}. Since that pronoun
represents the entire preceeding sentence, in a sense, you are
right. It does indirectly have a verb (the core of the previous
sentence) as a direct object. Still, the pronoun is the one
directly acting as object of {yImev}. The prefix {yI-} can
indicate a 3rd person singular direct object, which is the case
here with {'e'}.
> {qSeroHS vayn}
charghwI'