tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 08 20:01:41 1996
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RE: ADMIN: HOW TO GET OFF OF TLHINGAN-HOL
This is making me a bit sick to my fucking stomach. Get me off, PLEASE!
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Michiel Uitdehaag wrote:
> >> I was a bit lazy :) Didn't want to think of some recast and
> >> wanted to play it safe.
> >> jIbuDlaw'. vImugh 'e' vIQubqangbe' 'ej jIQagh 'e' vIneHbe'.
> >
> >Don't use {'e'} with {neH}. You simply leave it out.
> >
> >Also, I don't think you really want an {'e'} sentence with {Qub}. Try this on
> >for size:
> >
> >vImughmeH jIQubqangbe'.
>
> I must have missd some vital part in my TKD here.
> -jej is rereading section 6.2 now-
> I'm puzzled now :)
> there are:
> -compound sentences with conjunctions
> -subordinate clauses with special words like if and when
> -relative clauses with {-bogh}
> -purpose clauses with {-meH}
> -sentences as objects with {-'e'},{-net}, or {}
>
> So you are saying the latter here, sentences as objects without
> any suffix to indicate their special status?
> I now read thet {-'e'} is used for verbs which express my POV,
> {-net} for expressing 'one' or 'someone' and {} is used when
> the main verb is {neH} (like you mentioned), or when it is a
> verb of saying.
>
> Long way of saying I don't understand how you came up with your
> second sentence: {vImughmeH jIQubqangbe'}.
> Strictly speaking, this use of {Qub} doesn't fall under the
> requisites for {-'e'}, and {-net} isn't usefull either. It is
> not {neH}, nor a verb of saying, so is it at _all_ possible to
> join them into one sentence?
>
> Thanks in advance, this klingon doesn't know yet how to speak
> his mothertongue :)
>
> jejQIb
>