tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 14 10:09:30 1997
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Re: ghunlu'wI'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ghunlu'wI'
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:51:31 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony.Appleyard <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, November 14, 1997 10:23 AM
Subject: ghunlu'wI'
>{-lu'} is described as an impersonal subject, not a passive-voice
>marker; but according to TKD what looks to me like some element of treating
>{-lu} as a passive voice marker has already got into the syntax, e.g.:-
> Dalegh you see it
> Daleghlu' one sees you, you are seen
TKD p. 39 says sentences with {-lu'} are often *translated* with English
passive voice, but that does not mean that it's also a Klingon passive voice
marker. Klingon does not have passive voice.
{Daleghlu'} "someone or something unspecified sees you"
In English this sentence is equivalent in meaning to "you are seen."
There's only one way to write this meaning in Klingon, not two.
SuStel
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