tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 03 21:09:00 1995
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Re: KLBC - hello and questions
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC - hello and questions
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:09:30 -0500
ghItlh yoDtargh:
>{DaH jIjatlh 'e' vIrIn} (Now I'm finished speaking) or
>{DaH jIjatlh 'e' vItaHlaHbe'} (Now I am not able to continue speaking.)
Since I associate the "now" with the main verb here, I'd expect these
to be {jIjatlh DaH 'e' vIrIn} and {jIjatlh DaH 'e' vItaHlaHbe'}.
But you recently pointed out that {rIn} probably isn't transitive, so
{... 'e' vIrIn} doesn't make grammatical sense. You suggested making
it {rInmoH}; I think {mev} works. Or {jIjatlh DaH 'e' vImev rIntaH},
to get across the "finished" idea. Oops, I'm getting unnecessarily
complex for a note with "KLBC" in the subject.
>(The last two are sentence-as-object constructions (Sec. 6.2.5) which
>is probably the hardest thing for a beginner to master.)
(for experts as well, perhaps...? :-)
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj