tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 18 08:27:50 1997
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Re: lum tlhInganpu'
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: lum tlhInganpu'
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:27:44 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Qov" at Dec 17, 97 01:31:30 am
According to Qov:
...
> The catastrophe obligates you to fix the device. janvaD DutI'nISmoH lot.
The grammar for adding {-moH} to a transitive verb is confusing
and I believe you have it wrong. I read this as "The
catastrophe obligates the device to fix you." It is arguable
that you could have said {jan DutI'nISmoH lot}, though we have
no canon examples that combine the transitive {-moH} and the
prefix shorthand for a second-person indirect object. The most
arguably correct version would be {SoHvaD jan tI'nISmoH lot.}
To be honest, I don't like this grammar a lot because it is so
confusing and only use it if I can't find some other way to
cast something. In this case, I'd use:
lotmo' jan DatI'nIS.
No, it doesn't match the original English wording at all, but I
think it really does carry the meaning more clearly than
anything else suggested so far. DaparHa''a'?
> Qov [email protected]
> Beginners' Grammarian
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