tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 31 07:42:05 1999
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Re: nID cha' attn:KLBG
ja' DraQoS:
>> > Quj'a' DraQoS'vo
>>
>> Nouns with type five suffixes like <-vo'> go at the beginning of a sentence.
>> This is not a sentence - just a fragment - but the type five suffix should
>> still go first, I think.
>>
>This is the title of the piece. And the author (me). I am
>not sure what is wrong with this particular construction.
The main thing that *I* see wrong with it is the presence of the suffix
{-vo'} in the first place. {-vo'} is supposed to indicate action away
from a location. It isn't a simple translation for every use of the word
"from" in English, and this isn't even a place where English "from" makes
a lot of sense.
If you want to indicate that the piece is composed by you, you have two
basic options. One is actually to say {Quj'a' qon DraQoS}. The other
is to use the N-N possessive construction: {DraQoS Quj'a'}. It might be
appropriate to add {-'e'} to mark the topic or use punctuation to point
out that {Quj'a'} is a title.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh