tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 27 17:17:00 1997
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RE: KLBC Clipped vs not
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC Clipped vs not
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 97 01:14:15 UT
jatlh HomDoq:
> SuStel said long ago :)
> > things that usually get clipped are:
> >
> > all verb prefixes
> > all grammatically nonessential verb suffixes
> > pronouns
> >
> I don't think pronouns are ever "clipped"; they can be left out
> if they are not functioning as verbs, but that is not clipping.
Quite correct.
> It doesn't make sense to use imperative with pronouns-as-verbs,
> so where is the evidence for clipping of pronouns?
Well, clipping doesn't only happen when giving commands. For example (from
canon, I believe), {So'wI' chu'ta'} "cloaking device engaged."
> would you accept {Ha'DIbaH targh'e'} as clipped Klingon?
If it were simply {Ha'DIbaH targh}, I might. No, I don't think we've ever
seen this sort of clipping in canon, but I don't consider it much of a
stretch.
Okay, I'm not trying to say "clipping *is* this," or "clipping *is* that."
I'm just trying to come up with some ideas of exactly how to explain it
without quoting all of the TKD section on it.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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