tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 05 07:59:17 1999
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Re: Word Order (KLBC)
- From: "Eduardo Fonseca" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Word Order (KLBC)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:55:28 -0200
ghItlh William H. Martin:
>Just adding to an excellent explanation:
>> <jIH> is a pronoun meaning "I/me", and <vI-> is the verb prefix for a first
>> person singular (I/me) subject and a third person singular (he/she/it)
>> object. Perhaps because the information is built into the verb prefix,
>> pronouns are almost always optional in Klingon, and don't get used very
>> much, so the second choice <puq vIqIp> would be heard much more often than
>> the first.
>
>It is so common to omit the pronoun {jIH} here that the natural
>interpretation for instances when it does appear is to emphasize
>the pronoun. In other words, if I was just telling you what I
>did, I'd say {puq vIqIp}, but if you just accused my friend of
>hitting the child and I was correcting you, emphasizing that it
>was me and not my friend who did it, I'd say, {puq vIqIp jIH.}
>It is similar to, in English, saying, "It was ME who hit the
>child."
>> pagh
>> Beginners' Grammarian
>charghwI' 'utlh
Just a question here. I would say: {puq vIqIp jIH'e'}
in order to say that was ME and merely ME (nobody else) who hit
the boy. qar'a'.
Edy