tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 29 04:57:21 1997
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Re: Noun-noun with {'e'}
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Noun-noun with {'e'}
- Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 04:57:18 -0800
At 17:50 97-11-28 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}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...
For one, {'e'} is a pronoun, and pronouns are only used in possessives when
it's a noun of proximity. 'ej vIpar jIH. DujwIj Davoq'a' :)
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian