tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 16 00:28:29 1997
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Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:28:10 -0800
At 08:40 97-12-15 -0800, SI'IluD wrote:
}>chay' yuQvam wIchargh?
}tlhIngan Hol ghoj neHchoH Hoch DIraD
Daj nablIj! Lets start by teaching them when to ue sentence-as-object. :)
In English you can make the action of one verb the object of another verb,
usually by making the object verb an infinitive ("we helped her to walk"), a
gerund ("we like walking"), another clause ("I know that you fight"), or
just one sentence in the object position of another verb ("I see you like
him"). In Klingon only the verb {neH} can take another verb directly as its
object. Other verbs require sentence-as-object, making the examples: {yIt
ghaH 'e' wIQaH} {mayIt 'e' wIparHa'} {SuSuv 'e' vISov} and {DaparHa' 'e'
vIlegh}. Read about it in section 6.2.5. Follow up and ask if that doesn't
perfectly explain what I have done to your sentence. I've changed the prefix
{DI-} to {wI-} because the pronoun {'e'} referring to the previous sentence
is singular.
This sentence is now open for comment or elaboration on this method of
conquering the planet. :)
tlhIngan Hol ghoj neHchoH Hoch 'e' wIraD
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian