tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 29 08:25:50 1997
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Re: KLBC: Phrases
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Phrases
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:23:40 -0600 (CST)
'Iwvan wrote:
:David Trimboli wrote:
:> January 28, 1997 5:48 AM EST, jatlh Perry J. Brulotte:
:> > [If war is costly and war is hell then hell must be costly.]
:>
:> waghchugh noH 'ej ghe'or 'oHchugh noH'e', vaj waghnIS ghe''or.
:
:_tKD_ 4.2.2 implies that the Type 2 verbal suffixes indicate deontic
:modality (the need for, or desirability of, an event); here the _must_
:performs an alethic function (`it follows that hell is costly' rather
:than `hell needs to be costly'). Unless there is precedent for such
:use of {-nIS}, I suggest using {-law'} or nothing at all.
I'm not sure I understand your distinction. Here are all the attestations of
-nIS I could find in canon
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