tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 11 21:13:31 1997
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RE: KLBC: My first post
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: My first post
- Date: Mon, 12 May 97 04:02:34 UT
jIjatlhpu':
> >'oH vIQoy jIH.
> >I hear it.
> >
> >Note that you can drop unneeded pronouns. {vI-} is a pretty clear pronoun,
> >and if I simply said {vIQoy}, the subject *has* to be plural, so you can
drop
> >the {jIH}. You may not want to drop the object pronoun, depending on how
> >clear your context is.
Whoops! That should have been, "and if I simply said {vIQoy}, the subject
*has* to be first-person singular, so you can drop the {jIH}. Thanks to
ghunchu'wI' for pointing this out to me.
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SuStel
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