tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 25 10:08:20 1997
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Re: understanding {-lu'} (was Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch)
- From: "Jarno Peschier" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: understanding {-lu'} (was Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch)
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 19:11:22 +0100
- Comments: Authenticated sender is <[email protected]>
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Computer Science
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On 24 Nov 97 at 1:07, [email protected] wrote:
> I still maintain that {-lu'} is not the English-type "passive
> voice." The Klingon way of thinking is that it is an indication of
> an indefinite subject.
> The passive voice construction usually still indicates who the
> subject is by
> adding ".... by the subject." For example, "The enemy officer was
> killed by the Klingon soldiers." The tlhIngan Hol {-lu'} suffix can
> only go so far as to express "The enemy officer was killed." We do
> not have a module for "... by the Klingon soldiers."
While that English sentence cannot be expressed in one Klingon
sentence using {-lu'} it can be expressed by two Klingon sentences
(or a compound sentence, if you will) of the following form: "The
enemy officer was killed. The Klingon soldiers did that". Right?
Qapla'
peSHIr
Jarno Peschier, computer science student, Utrecht University
mailto:[email protected] http://jarno.home.ml.org/
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