tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 01 20:38:39 1996
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Re: KLBC "Don't let the bastards get you down"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC "Don't let the bastards get you down"
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 23:40:56 -0500
tIm writes:
>nI'IQmoH taHqeqpu' tIchaw'Qo'
After a lot of agreements and suggestions for different translations of
"get you down", *finally* someone noticed that you need to use {'e'} as
the object of the second verb! You're not talking about refusing to
permit the people; you're talking about refusing to permit an action.
That action, in the form of a complete sentence, is the object of the
verb {chaw'}, and it is represented by the pronoun {'e'}. See TKD section
6.2.5 for a discussion of sentences as objects.
{nI[whatever] taHqeqpu' 'e' yIchaw'Qo'}
>HIjangnIS
You can say either {HIjang} or {chojangnIS} to indicate you need a reply,
but {HI-} and {-nIS} don't coexist well. You've said something close to
"Hey, you -- need to answer me!" You ordered me to have to do something
instead of either ordering me to do it or telling me I have to do it.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj