tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 10 11:07:20 1996
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Re: Something else to think about
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Something else to think about
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:07:17 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Jan 9, 96 10:02:46 am
According to Mark E. Shoulson:
>
> >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:28:58 -0800
> >From: "A T GREENE" <[email protected]>
>
> >The phrase is
>
> > "Only a fool fights in a burning house."
>
> >I offer
>
> > <qachDaq meQbogh SuvtaH qoH neH>
>
> >Any comments?
>
> This is the famous ship-in-which-I-fled problem, which we've hit our ridgy
> foreheads against for ages. The trouble is that Klingon relative clauses
> only seem to be usable as subjects or objects in the matrix clause. See
> the interview with Marc Okrand in a recent HolQeD (my HolQeDs are at my
> office, and I can't check them now).
Perhaps then:
meQtaHchugh qach vaj qachvetlhDaq SuvtaH qoHna' neH.
> ~mark
charghwI'
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