tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 11 07:28:37 1996
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"X-Daq X-Daq je"
- From: Mark Mandel <[email protected]>
- Subject: "X-Daq X-Daq je"
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:27:50 -0500
nughItlh ghunchu'wI':
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>yaHwIjDaq juHwIjDaq je De'wI'mey vIghun.
I need some opinions from the list at large here -- can locatives be
conjoined like this?
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I say they can. <je> (along with <qoj> and <pagh>) joins nouns. A Type 5
suffix, such as <-Daq>, doesn't change a noun into something else. It's
still a noun, and <je> can join two (or more) such nouns. Therefore, I
support pagh's usage in
(1) yaHwIjDaq juHwIjDaq je De'wI'mey vIghun.
vuDwIj 'oH wuqvam'e' je: You can also use a noun-conjunction to join
nouns with *different* Type 5 suffixes. For example, if you ask me to
name some of the spaceports I know, I might answer:
(2) Qo'noSDaq tera'Daq romuluSvo' je vIchIjpu'.
I've navigated to Kronos and to Terra and from Romulus.
Granted, this is an unusual situation. If you ask me what I was doing on a
certain date, I'd be more likely to answer
(3) Qo'noSvo' tera' maS vIchIjtaH.
I was navigating from Kronos to Earth's moon.
with no conjunction. I deliberately formulated the context of example (2)
to allow for disconnected destinations and origins. But I can't see any
syntactic reason to reject it.
marqem, tlhIngan veQbeq la'Hom -- Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'!
Subcommander Markemm,
Klingon Sanitation Corps -- Death to Litterbugs!
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : [email protected]