tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 22 13:56:02 1997
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Re: KLBC: imperatives
>Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
>There is no reason to suspect this of Klingon. I do not mean that this cannot
>happen, but so far as we know, when you use any preifx which indicates 2nd
>person subject, you've got to HAVE a 2nd-person subject. {pIch Daghaj wo'rIv}
>is direct address. It may be rewritten as {pIch Daghaj SoH wo'rIv}. It's
>still direct address. It's not apposition.
I'm inclined to agree with SuStel, but I'm not truly sure there's really a
difference at all.
~mark