tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 18 15:42:28 1998
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Re: Verbs of Saying
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Verbs of Saying
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
---David Trimboli wrote:
>
> From: qe'San - Jon Brown <[email protected]>
> >After reading the above I couldn't help thinking about {pong (v)}
again.
> >
> >It is repeatedly said that we don't know how the verb is used as we
> >haven't been given any cannon examples. I'm sorry for bringing it up
> >again but I thought, why isn't pong considered to be a verb of
saying?
>
> We do have canon with {pong}, from Skybox cared S27:
>
> roD 'oHvaD juHqo' ponglu' neH.
> It [Qo'noS] is usually referred to as simply 'The Homeworld.'
>
> If {pong} were a verb of saying, the name would go either before or
after
> the *sentence*, not in the *middle* of the sentence between {'oHvaD}
and
> {ponglu'}.
"Well," she says, explicitly removing the "Beginners' Grammarian" tag
from her sig, "I'm one of those who happily reads and writes
constructions like the following."
'utlh qanvaD <qaHo'> jatlh Qugh, bIttaHvIS. <bItlheDpa' ...> loQ yev
Qugh <... choghomqangqa'neS'a'?>
I suppose I could write instead:
'utlh qanvaD jatlh Qugh, bIttaHvIS, <qaHo'>.
<bIltheDpa' ..> jatlh Qugh. loQ yev.
taH. jatlh <... choghomqangqa'neS'a'?>
Often dialog in my stories isn't explicitly marked off with verbs of
saying, anyway. I just make it clear that discourse is happening, and
then type in what the characters are saying, with paragraphing
conventions mostly like English.
And we all get into bitter wars about it. Tra la la. SochleS.
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