tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 26 06:41:23 1996

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Re: response to Holtej

• From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: response to Holtej
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:42:47 -0500 (EST)
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960125153507.25863A-100000@aces1>

On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Andrea Benton wrote:

> nuqneH Holtej!

naDev qaleghmo' jIQuchqu'!

> vIghaj puqloD!....

I'll let ghunchu'wI' comment on the grammar, but...

qaHoy'!  Dunqu' De'vam.  Hoch ghoja'!

> whew...how in the heck do you say the word "list"?

In reference to what?  This mailing list?  You can say instead "group" 
/ghom/.

> and how do you show past tense in sentences?

There's no grammatical device to indicate tense.  Rather, tense is 
inferred from other context in the sentence, such as time adverbials.  
"I'll see you tomorrow" /wa'leS qalegh/ is interpreted in the future 
tense, but there's no special marking on the verb.  See?

> Qapla'
> 
> SajQa'

--Holtej

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