tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 04 05:17:51 1997

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Re: Direct address (was Re: KLBC: imperatives)



On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 07:19:03 -0700 (PDT)  d'Armond 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Alan Anderson wrote:
> 
> > The sentence doesn't have to have a second-person subject or object in
> > order for the speaker to address the listener.  You can't find a place
> > to invoke apposition in {HoD tujqu'choH QuQ}.  The semantic analysis
> > of that sentence seems to act a lot like {HoD qaghomnIS} to me.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow you.  Why can you not use apposition in your sentence?
> 
> Direct address:
> wo'rIv, HoD tujqu'choH QuQ	The engine makes the captain hot, Worf.
> HoD tujqu'choH QuQ, wo'rIv	Worf, the engine makes the captain hot.

That's tujqu'choH, not tujqu'moH. There's a difference.
... 
> If you meant something else, then I'm confused.

If you meant that, then I'm confused.

> > -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
> --Holtej
 
charghwI'





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