tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 28 17:36:57 1997
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Noun-noun with {'e'}
Oh dear, I just had an epiphany. I hate it when that happens!
Sustel had written:
>qatlh Duj chIjtaH ghaHvaD net qawmoH
I was trying to decide how *I'd* express something like this in Klingon.
After I chose a simpler sentence, "I remember why I dislike it," I played
with the phrasing for a while. Suddenly I came up with this:
vIpar 'e' meq vIqaw.
"I dislike it. I remember (the previous sentence)'s reason."
Can someone tell me why I shouldn't use {'e'} as the first noun of a pair
of nouns in this way? This is scaring me; the longer I look at it, the
more I think it works. I'm not going to run with it just yet; I'll wait
for somebody to point out the obvious reason for it's being wrong. :-)
The week is not yet finished, and I really didn't want to get into a big
debate over yet another topic at the frontier of Klingon grammar...
-- ghunchu'wI'