tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 31 07:15:37 1998
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Re: KLBC - Adverbials
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC - Adverbials
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 98 09:06:27 EST
>: > puqhommey vIghIj 'e' rut vIparHa'. "Sometimes I like to scare the
>: > little children scattered all about."
>:
>: /'e'/ takes the object position in the SAO sentence. So where does
>: the adverb go? Before the SAO, as far as we can figure. Thus /... rut
>: 'e' vIparHa'/.
ja' Voragh:
>lughlaw' Burt. See SkyBox S26:
>
> DuraS tuq tlhIngan yejquv patlh luDub 'e' reH lunIDtaH DuraS be'nI'pu'
> lurSa' be'etor je.
> The sisters of the House of Duras, Lursa and B'Etor, are constantly seeking
> a higher standing for the House of Duras within the Klingon High Council.
This sentence also puts an aspect suffix on the second verb of a
sentence as object, something clearly forbidden in TKD. It isn't just
giving us an example of usage we didn't know about. It's actually
contradicting usage we *do* know about. When canon examples differ
from explicit canon rules, I tend to put more weight on the rules.
We've already got undeniable misspellings, mispronunciations, and
mistakes of other sorts in canon (cha'maH wa' vatlh rep = noon comes
to mind). Until either this is unambiguously explained or we get an
adequate supply of supporting phrases, I'm not going to worry much
about why {reH} comes after {'e'} in this particular example.
-- ghunchu'wI'