tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 22 20:33:02 1999
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Re: KLBC / DaHjaj: lupwI' DaSmeywIj ghap
>From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:28:55 -0700
>
>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?
pIjHa'... :) *eighth grader* SoHlaw''a'?
~mark