tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 27 01:09:49 1997
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Re: understanding {-lu'} (was Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: understanding {-lu'} (was Re: peDtaH 'ej jIQuch)
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 01:09:45 -0800
At 10:32 97-11-25 -0800, peHruS wrote:
}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?
If they were Klingon sentences they'd have to be in Klingon. tIqon!
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian