tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 03 10:00:08 1998

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Re: KLBC: ram Hurgh



ja' Qov :

> At 10:18 98-03-01 -0800, you wrote:
> }ja' Qov:
> }
> }> At 14:04 98-02-27 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
> }> }DaHjaj "be melancholy" jIH.
> }
> }Qov, *glasses*lIj  DalIj'a'? muj jay' mu'tlheghvam. qar {DaHjaj jI*be
> }melancholy*}.
>
> I assumed the prefix and accepted the emphasis. English verbs don't take
> prefixes.  How can I strictly mark macaroni?  You do have a correctly
> self-referential sentence above, though: {muj mu'tlheghvetlh jay'} - jay'
> goes at the end of the sentence.

 I thought {jay'} acted just like {neH}. {neH} follows the word it
refers to. I
wanted to say :<This sentence is xxxxing wrong.>, not <This xxxxing
sentence is
wrong.>Did I misunderstand something here?

HovqIj


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