tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 26 18:03:02 1996
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Re: KLBC: betleHmey....
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>Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 21:27:28 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>>*Britain*Daq maH..... Do'Ha'.
>"We are in Britain... it is unfortunate."
>This makes sense. [I hope you weren't trying to use {Do'Ha'} adverbially
>to say "We are in Britain... unfortunately." There is no justification
>for putting adverbials anywhere after the verb, even for emphasis.]
Ah, but adverbials *can* be used as exclamations (see TKD), thus this is an
adverbial use of Do'Ha' as a separate sentence: We are in Britain. Bummer.
~mark
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