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Re: Specifying the Object of {-bogh}

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Specifying the Object of {-bogh}
• Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:12:16 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]> ([email protected])

>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:33:59 -0800
>From: [email protected]

>I ate the food that your mother cooked.  This is the English sentence I want
>to translate into Klingon.

>If I write {Soj vutpu'bogh SoSli' vISopta'}, I seem to be eating your mother.

>Can I write {Soj'e' vutpu'bogh SoSli' vISopta'} in order to specify that
>{Soj} is what I am eating?

Yes.  This was suggested quite a while ago by Krankor to Okrand, who agreed
that it is the Right Thing.

~mark

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