tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 13 00:28:40 1996
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Re: KLBC: Q about -lu'
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Q about -lu'
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 9:28:41 MET
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "William H. Martin" at Mar 11, 96 4:18 pm
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
>
> It is illegal. Deal with it. Okrand clearly invented {net} to
> avoid {'e' Xlu'}. "One knows that..." is the same as
> "... is known". That third person indefinite subject described
> in the section on when you should always use {net} pretty much
> covers the function of {-lu'}. There is no place to use {'e'
> Xlu'} which does not violate the rule which tells you when to
> use {net}.
>
> charghwI'
>
let me just say that I (who wrote the 'offensive'
line) was just too stupid to remember to use "net".
If I had thought a bit more, I'd have used "net",
whether "'e' Xlu'" be 'illegal' or not.
HomDoq
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