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Re: <noun>-mo' <verb>-be'

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: <noun>-mo' <verb>-be'
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:24:53 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

ja' HomDoq:
>> maHmo' He'So'be' qach.
>> The building does not stink because of us.
>>
>as far as I understand, the English is ambiguous.
>Is the Klingon as well?

I think the Klingon is ambiguous.  {-be'} sometimes seems to negate only
the verb or the suffix it follows, but it sometimes seems to negate the
entire sentence, adverbials and subordinate clauses and all.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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