tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 03 10:44:11 1998
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Re: KLBC: ram Hurgh
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: ram Hurgh
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 10:42:23 -0800
At 10:16 98-03-03 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
}ja' Qov :
}
}> 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?
Yes you have. See p. 177 in TKD. "Alone among the adverbials, {jay'}
always comes at the end of the sentence." {muj mu'tlheghvam jay'}
translates as "this sentence is &*%!@ wrong," "this &*%!@ sentence is
wrong," or "%^$&! this sentence is wrong." You could mark a noun you
wanted emphasized with {-'e'}, or a verb with {-qu'} and possibly achieve
the effect you wanted.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian