tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 12:54:37 1995
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Re: KLBC: A Name
>Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:44:46 -0800
>From: "Garrett Michael Hayes" <[email protected]>
>On 27 Nov 95 at 21:10, Ben Warren wrote:
><pe'>
>> Learned tlhIngan Hol Linguists,
>>
>> Hos'etlh
>> (Strong Sword)
>ponglIj vIparHa' jIHna' !
>(*I* like your name!)
"jIHna'" sounds very odd... as though it's the *definite* me, as opposed to
something that's sort of me but not really. If you want to emphasize the
"me"-ness, you can rely on the fact that you have the pronoun there at all
("ponglIj vIparHa' jIH" does put emphasis on the jIH, which normally would
be elided), or for extra oomph, particularly for contrast (I, as opposed to
others), you can use "-'e'": ponglIj vIparHa' jIH'e'.
~mark