tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 05 12:05:14 1998
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KLBC : and
- From: "David Baxter" <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC : and
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:06:45 +0100
If I haven't got this right then I need reading lessons.
chobuQ 'ej tera'ngan romuluSngan je vIHoH.
You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the Romulan.
David Baxter
[email protected]
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Date: 02 August 1998 19:55
>Subject: Re: KLBC : and
>
>
>>---David Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> chobuQ tera'ngan vIHoH
>>> You threaten me. I kill the Terran.
>>>
>>> ChobuQ 'ej tera'ngan vIHoH
>>> You threaten me and I kill the Terran.
>>
>>If I miss the misspelling of /chobuQ/, and if you understand that your
>>sentence above is not a threat, just two independent statements, like
>>"you eat pastrami and I play the guitar," then this is fine.
>>
>>> chobuQ 'ej tera'ngan je romuluSngan vIHoH
>>> You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the Romulan.
>>>
>>> Did I get it right?
>>
>>Not yet. I said:
>>
>>> >See section 5.3. Read it twice. Then blink and read it again.
>>> >How would you say: "You threaten me and I kill the Terran and the
>>> >Romulan."
>>> >Look CAREFULLY where to put the second and. It's not where
>>> >you might think.
>>
>>I guess you'd better read that section a fourth time, especially the
>>line that reads "The conjunctions joining nouns come after the final
>>noun."
>>
>>Try again.
>>==
>>
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>>
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