tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 22 14:37:58 1997
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Re: Correct state of my name list
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 04:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Jarno Peschier" <[email protected]>
>
>On 21 Aug 97 at 7:59, Eduardo Fonseca wrote:
>
>> qavan Jarno Peschier
>
>Mmm, watch your sentence order. This litterally says "I, Jarno
>Peschier, salute you" instead of the "I salute you, Jarno Peschier"
>you obviously meant.
>
>That would be: Jarno Peschier qavan. And you could also use my
>Klingon name and just make it the following: peSHIr qavan.
Not so. Read TKD section 5.6. Direct address terms can come at the
beginning or the end of a sentence. They are not (necessarily) fill-ins
for the subject or object.
~mark