tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 30 11:33:29 1998
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RE: KLBC: paghvaD pab qab vInob
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Sarah Andeen wrote:
>lab tuv'el:
>>> > yItIv!
>>> 'e' vInab.
>>TRANS: I plan to? Can /'e'/ be used for that if the context is clear?
>
>Well, we know that <'e'> refers to the previous sentence, and we don't know
>that it has to be the speaker's previous sentence and not somebody else's. I
>don't believe we have seen this usage in canon, though.
Yes we have - in ST6:
Kerla: QamvIS Hegh qaq law' torvIS yIn qaq puS! [sic]
Azetbur: 'e' neHbe' vavwI'.
Chang: Your father was killed for what he wanted.
--
Voragh "Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)