tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 01 02:57:45 1999
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"yIDuv wa'"
- From: Captain Krankor <[email protected]>
- Subject: "yIDuv wa'"
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 05:57:56 -0400 (EDT)
Regarding: yIDuv wa'
Jeremy, what's going on here is that you have (inadvertantly, I assume),
stumbled onto the forefront of grammar. I understand (now) what you are
doing and why, and frankly, it's probably correct. But it *is* onthe
frontier. It's very unusual, nobody has really done this before. I
understand why charghwI' is uncomfortable with it. But this kind of thing
is beyond the normal scope of Beginner's Grammarian, so feel free to stand
your ground on it. Like I said, your construction is probably correct, and
in any case is not provably *incorrect*. BUT: it IS unusual and
certainly controversial, which means you still might want to rework it,
just to be clearer, because people are frankly going to have a hard time
understanding it. Since what you seem to be trying to get across is that
only one person should advance, regardless of how many people are at the
door, I might do it as: yIDuv wa' neH.
In any case, you have assuredly stirred up a grammatical hornet's nest. {{:-)
This one will certainly be argued about. {{:-)
--Captain Krankor