tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 31 12:34:58 1997
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Re: KLBC: Practicing...
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:11:46 -0800 (PST)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>jatlh mIqIraH:
>
>> jatlh SuStel:
>>
>> > bIQaghbej, 'ach bIghojmeH bIQaghnIS.
>>
>> "Omelet" DachenmoHlaHbe' "a couple of eggs" Daghorbe'chugh 'e' lujatlh.
>
>For a couple, or a few, you can use {puS}.
>
>Also, when you use verbs of saying, like {jatlh}, you don't use {'e'}. My
>reading of this has always been that the quotation is just a second sentence
>crammed against the first one, and is not the object of that sentence.
>
>Who are "they"? In English, it is sometimes used to indicate a general
>subject, but in Klingon, you've got something which does that: the suffix
>{-lu'}.
... and as soon as you catch yourself saying "... 'e' Xlu'", immediately
start to think seriously about substituting "net X".
Then again, verbs of saying don't take 'e', maybe not net also.
~mark