tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 14 11:03:38 1995
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 294
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:22:43 -0800
>From: "Matt Treyvaud, P.A." <[email protected]>
>> chaq "jIyu':" neH ghItlhlaH.
>mu'tlheghvetlh jIparHa'... "object" poQbe'a' "yu'"? "HeSwI' vIyu'pu', la'"
>vIjatlhmeH vIlo'.
Could be. But we know that even verbs that do need objects can be used
without them in Klingon, to mean "in general" (cf. "maSop"/"we eat", even
though usually "Sop" takes an object--see pp. 33-34). So it could just
mean "I ask:" perhaps "I ask you", etc.
Oh, you should have "mu'tlheghvetlh *vI*parHa'"; "jI-" is for no object.
>And I'm not really sure about that sort of structure, either. Since
>tlhIngan goes object-verb-subject, if we do use something like "jIyu'",
>shouldn't it be like:
><block of text>
> ...jIyu'.
It's a good question, although note that if the text were truly the object,
you'd need "vI-" and not "jI-". But I wouldn't think of it in those
terms. I'm relying on context a lot: "I ask: Q1 Q2 Q3." The sentence "I
ask" is complete in and of itself. It doesn't say whom I am asking, nor
what the questions are. The questions stand on their own, afterwards.
It's only context that binds them together; they are not properly subject
and object.
~mark