tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 18 04:25:16 1999
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{X 'e' Y-lu'}
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: {X 'e' Y-lu'}
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:26:14 +-300
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jatlh voragh:
> For some reason, even after going into such detail in the Dictionary,
> Okrand took an intense dislike to {net} and has never used it again
> in any other source AFAIK. This prejudice explains the frequent use
> of {'e'} even where the grammar is unusual, even controversial.
jatlh charghwI' 'utlh:
>> If your presumption about his motive is correct, then your
>> observation is correct. Meanwhile, if this instance in which
>> there is an indefinite subject in both the first and second
>> sentence and both verbs are referring to the same indefinite
>> entity, this may very well be an exception to the use of {net}.
>> If this is true, then the effect is identical to your presumed
>> cause.
{X net Y-lu'} qelbogh nger wejDIch vIchup:
Inasmuch as both {net} and {-lu'} identify verb Y as having an impersonal
subject, perhaps the combination is heard as redundant, thus rendering the
more common {'e'} at least optional.
vaj tlhoS nIblaw' tlha'bogh wej mu'tlheghmey:
yay'lu'taH 'e' not mevlu'!
yay'lu'taH net not mev!
yay'lu'taH 'e' not mev vay'!
qar'a' qa'ral?