tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 30 08:46:23 1996
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Re: KLBC: jIghItlhqa'laH'a' and Re: Skybox season five klingon cards
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Hee... I knew there'd be canon that -meH can precede whole clauses and not
just verbs and nouns. -meH is far too useful a construction to be lacking
in reasonably long texts. So let's look at the SkyBox cards.
>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:45:40 -0700
>From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
>>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 05:26:38 -0700
>>From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
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>>S25 tlhIngan vaS'a'
>>juHqo'Daq vaS'a' tu'lu'. ngoch luchermeH 'ej wo' San luwuqmeH pa' ghom
>>tlhIngan yejquv DevwI'pu'. DaH che' ghawran. yejquv DevwI' moj ghawran 'e'
>>wuqta' cho' 'oDwI' Dapu'bogh janluq pIqarD HoD.
Note the conjunction of -meH clauses with 'ej, and that they precede the
locative "pa'". Not quite conclusive.
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>>S26 lurSa' be'etor je
>>DuraS tuq tlhIngan yejquv patlh luDub 'e' reH lunIDtaH DuraS be'nI'pu' lurSa'
>>be'etor je. ngoDvam luchavmeH ghawran maghpu' be'nI'pu'. woQ luSuqmeH jIjpu'
>>chaH romuluSngan'e' je.
This is conclusive. "ngoDvam luchavmeH ghawran [lu]maghpu' be'nI'pu'".
There's no way that you can say "ngoDvam luchavmeH" modifies Gowron; it has
to modify the following sentence, the whole sentence, and it comes before
its object.
I'll bet that gobs of other examples are there to be found in TKW.
~mark
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