tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 02 08:26:46 1999
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Re: the scope of {-be'}
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 19:22:08 -0500 David Trimboli
<[email protected]> wrote:
...
> "'I' before 'e,' except after 'c,' or when rhyming with 'neighbor' or
> 'weigh,' or . . . ."
Or other weird examples.
> SuStel
> Stardate 99835.8
>
>
> P.S.: Consider also those moments in conversation where you've just said
> something, and even as you're speaking you realize you've got to negate
> something you've just said. You'll be very tempted to stick {-be'} at the
> end of the sentence! Mentally, I think people alter scope as they see fit,
> when they need to.
Certainly. The question is whether or not a person has a thought
and goes through this process to form a sentence, expresses that
sentence, and a different person speaking the same language,
though perhaps having a different background, will hear this and
construct a similar thought from the sentence.
If the rules become too flexible, then it becomes quite easy for
a person to follow those rules in constructing a sentence and
have the listener also follow the same rules in constructing the
thought from the sentence, but they came up with a totally
different thought.
tugh tlhInganpu' DIpIHlI'. tlhInganpu' DaleghlaH'a'?
wej tlhIngan vIlegh.
charghwI'