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Re: Sentence as Object



how do i get out of send back to [email protected]

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> From: [email protected]
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Sentence as Object
> Date: Sunday, 9 November 1997 15:43
> 
> In a message dated 97-11-07 08:57:42 EST, you write:
> 
> << Well, if you could provide a translation of a question as an 
>  object IN ITS ENTIRETY without removing the question mark, 
>  dropping the "that" and fudging the words around until it looks, 
>  in English, like a relative clause, then perhaps I could begin 
>  to take your argument a little bit seriously. Meanwhile, you 
>  have not managed to do this even once. You just dodge the issue. 
>  You ignore it. >>
> 
> peHruS here:
> 
> Okay, you have started to understand the difference in our points.  You
think
> I am trying to substitute relative clause translations for SAO/QAO
> translations.  Wrong!!!
> 
> I am trying to point out clearly for you all what TKD 6.2.5 really says. 
You
> have been refusing to believe it.  You merely ramble on about a different
> topic altogether:   relative clauses.  I have always said they work just
fine
> with the TKD section regarding realtive clauses, TKD 6.2.3.
> 
> You understand now?  There are two completely distinct sections in
Klingon
> grammar.  But, do you see that you, not I, have been trying to confuse
> them???  Equate them?
> 
> peHruS


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