tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 17 14:17:38 1997
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Re: yIvem ej qa'vIn yIlargh
- From: mayq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: yIvem ej qa'vIn yIlargh
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:18:50 -0500
At 01:18 PM 1/17/97 -0800, eric d. zay wrote:
>Huh? I am not aware of any reason why <qa'vIn tIr DI> can't be used as the
>object of the sentence. And the rest of your sentence doesn't make sense.
No, it doesn't make sense in YOUR mind.
There is a difference between:
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh
and
<qa'vIn tIr DI> vIjatlh.
qar'a'? maj. Okay, so we DON'T know if we can use quotes or not in tlhIngan
Hol, so we mark it, like you did, but we don't SPEAK the stuff in <>'s. It
is a general term, <jatlh>. It's used in a general sense, as if I said in
English, "I speak English." We speak a LANGUAGE, but we don't speak a
SENTENCE. We also don't SAY something (i.e. I say it). I don't know the
linguistic term for this type of word, but there probably is one. I think
it's got something to do with transitivity. Therefore, we use the markers,
and we use a no-object prefix, such as <jI>. So, for now, the best we can do is:
<qa'vIn tIr DI> jIjatlh.
-mayq