tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 19 16:29:19 1997
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Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch
ja' peHruS:
><< > wa'maH cha' Hu' peDchoH muD.
> > peDtaHqu' 'e' buq chal.
> > loQ taDchoH Hemey. >>
>Interesting usages.
>
>First: peDchoH muD, giving {muD} as the Subject of the "snowing". Caught my
>eye.
peDbej muD'e'. muDvo' narghba' qutHom chIS.
'ej mInlIj baHpu' 'Iv? :-)
>Second: taDchoH Hemey, giving {He} as the Subject of "freezing". Was it the
>road which was freezing or some waterous substance thereupon?
taD He'e'. Whether it was the road itself or something on its surface,
the *course* I intended to travel was becoming frozen. I did not mean
for the word {He} to mean literally "road"; that's not its definition.
>Third: {buq} does not have to have a solid Object.
nuqjatlh? A sentence referred to by {'e'} sure looks like an object to me.
>The Object may be "It was going to keep snowing a lot."
It "may" be? That sure looks like the same idea as my {peDtaHqu'}.
>This also nicely covers the lack of a Klingon infinitive.
I don't understand what this is saying at all. What "this" are you talking
about, and what do you mean by "covers"?
-- ghunchu'wI'