tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 11 19:49:45 1995
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Re: Klingon on Internet Relay Chat
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Klingon on Internet Relay Chat
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 22:50:24 -0500
maSqa' writes:
>*Maine*Daq SuvwI' bIr chaH Hoch SuvwI''e'
>(does that use {Hoch} correctly?)
I don't think so. {Hoch SuvwI'} would mean "everyone's warrior",
and I think you wanted to say "all warriors". The standard use
of {Hoch} here is {SuvwI' Hoch}, "all of the warriors". I'm not
quite sure this "partive" construction follows the noun-noun rule
in TKD, but it's canon.
One other thing about your sentence bothers me. You're using
{chaH} in its verb form in both senses of "to be" simultaneously.
{*Maine*Daq chaH SuvwI''e} and {SuvwI' bIr chaH SuvwI''e'} are
both valid sentences (though the second one is rather convoluted),
but I'm not sure the combination is reasonable.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj