tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 22 17:27:36 1999
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RE: KLBC / DaHjaj: lupwI' DaSmeywIj ghap
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC / DaHjaj: lupwI' DaSmeywIj ghap
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:28:55 -0700
jIjatlh:
> I just do Klingon grammar :) Actually, the verb would be
> "is", and the subject would be "there", acting as some
> sort of funky pronoun. An eighth grade English teacher
> could probably explain it better, but that's all I can do.
mulughmoH ~mark:
> Um, actually, the "there" in the English is an adverb, not
> the subject. The subject is "a car", and the "there" is an
> adverb of place: "a car is there". Idiomatically, when the
> "there" is transposed to the beginning the location aspect
> is weakened (you don't really talk about a particular place
> whenever you use "there is") and the existence aspect of
> the verb "to be" (which has gobs of meanings, so needs all
> the help it can get) is emphasized.
toH. DaH jIyajchoH. yIqaw: tlhIngan Hol neH vIlughmoH 'e' vImaq. *eighth
grader*-pu'vaD DIvI' Hol DaghojmoH'a', ~mark?
pagh