tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 15 14:53:41 1998
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Re: KLBC - pabwIj vIlughmoH 'ej mu'tlheghmey chu' vIqon
- From: Burt Clawson <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC - pabwIj vIlughmoH 'ej mu'tlheghmey chu' vIqon
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:59:09 -0600
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KLBC - 'e'
Robyn Stewart wrote:
> ---Burt Clawson wrote:
>
> > ghobe'. Sov'a' jupma' pagh'e'? "No. Does our friend Pagh know?"
>
> Hmm. Please answer this. Why did you put /-'e'/ on /pagh/? Do you
> believe it is required there? It's not necessarily wrong, it's just
> that you use /-'e'/ a lot and I want to make sure you know what you
> are doing with it.
>
I'm not quite clear on how to use 'e' properly. I realize that it is not
required on a pronoun at the end of a sentence, it has just been working out
that way. When I use 'e' it is to put emphasis on it, I don't understand
how it used otherwise (though it seems clear that it is required in certain
sentence structures.) jIH'e' = "ME ME ME and no one else!" ghaH'e' in my
sentence about the Romulan ambassador = "I accidentally served [him] dead
qagh, but HE {the idiot} never noticed it." I used it in this last
sentence, because I wanted to make sure everyone realized I was talking
about Pagh, frequent stand-in for the BG, rather than pagh, no one, zero,
nothing.
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