tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 12 14:30:10 1999
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Re: KLBC: Imperative prefixes
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Imperative prefixes
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:41:16 -0400
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>Even in English, in
>the first example of "Let there be light," although there is a grammatical
>need for the command to be given to someone, I don't think any native
>speaker really hears this as God *ordering someone else* to *permit* light
>to exist
[. . .].
>It's simply
>an order that light is to be. I suppose one might as easily translate this
>type of construction as "wovnISlu'" or "'elnIS" or perhaps "wovlu' 'e'
>vIpoQ"/"'el 'e' vIpoQ". Which I like rather better than "... 'e' yIchaw'"
'ej jatlh God <wov!>
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