tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 01 19:53:31 1996
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Re: Re: --no subject--
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: --no subject--
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:40:32 -0500
[email protected] writes:
>I was trying to say "Then I dicovered it was Sheakspear." I'm guessing I
>shouldn't have used {'oH} because the verb prefix {-vI} is used.
You can use the sentence-as-object construction to express this meaning.
{Shakespeare 'oH 'e' vItu'} "I discovered that it was Shakespeare."
Literally, "It was Shakespeare; I discovered that." (This assumes that
"Shakespeare" is understood to mean something written by him.)
I don't think {vaj} works for the word "then" meaning "afterwards"; when
I'm not sure if it is appropriate, I usually try to translate it as "thus".
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj