tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 07:38:11 1996
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Re: KLBC: jIghItlhqa'laH'a'
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>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:23:34 -0700
>From: [email protected] (CT)
>DaH rIn DuSaQ
>pIj jabbI'IDghomvamvaD jIghItlhlaH 'e' vIQubpu'
qayajchu'... 'ach loQ bIQagh. You're running up against a rule you
shouldn't feel bad for missing. I call it "The Obscure Rule." Apparently,
when you're doing a sentence with 'e' or net, the second verb (i.e. the
main verb) can't take a type-7 (aspect) suffix. It's in TKD, Section
6.2.5, p.66. Which is too bad, since it makes perfect sense to do it in
some cases (like here, where it really clears things up), but that's what
we're told.
>DaH wanI' le' tu'lu'
chaq "qaS wanI' le'"... qaSbej wanI'. wanI' tu'lu''a'?
>motlh pa' narghbe'bogh Dochmey DIghojlaH
>ghItlhwIj vIpeghlaHmeH tugh <pIqaD> rurlaw'bogh vay' vIlo'laH
>naDev vIlo'be'bej
>tlhIngan Hol neH vIghItlh 'e' vInIDtaH
>bItuvmo' qatlho'
batlh yInID! maj.
>SanQIb
>P.S. nuqDaq <tugh> vIlannIS? lugh'a'?
>mu'tlheghna' 'oH'a' <-meH> lo'bogh mu'tlheghqoq'e'?
bIlughlaw', 'ach chaq qayajHa'. "-meH" sentences are like adverbs in that
they come at the beginnings of sentences (they may also precede nouns). I
would think that you can put another adverb (like tugh) after such a -meH
sentence (or possibly before, though then it would look like the adverb was
part of the -meH clause).
Hrm. Actually, it looks like the above paragraph is wrong (I like to leave
such things in my posts [and even finish them if I realize they're wrong in
the middle of writing], so people can see the thought-process). I checked
TKD again, and it says that "-meH" clauses precede "the noun or verb" they
modify. That would imply that it must come directly before the verb.
~mark
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