tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 15 14:27:17 2000
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Re: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 15 Feb 2000 09:00:00 -0000 Issue 1453
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 15 Feb 2000 09:00:00 -0000 Issue 1453
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:26:46 EST
In a message dated 2/15/2000 4:01:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> >From: "Eric Andeen" <[email protected]>
>
> >In English, a lot of verbs use helper pronouns - listen to, concentrate
on,
> >participate in, etc. Klingon doesn't work this way. Often the English
> >helper
> >pronoun is built into the verb, as in <buS> - "concentrate on". But
> >sometimes the Klingon verb doesn't work like the English verb at all, like
> ><'Ij> - "listen".
> >
> >You (probably) can't say <Duj vI'Ij> in Klingon any more than you could
say
> >"I listen the car" in English. And you *definitely* can't say <DujDaq
> >jI'Ij>
> >to mean "I listen to the car". This would actually mean that I am doing my
> >listening *in* (or by,at,on,etc.) the car, which is quite different. The
> >noun suffix <-Daq> is *only* used for spatial concepts of location or
> >motion, and can't fill in for English's helper pronouns.
>
All of the so-called helper pronouns above are prepositions and sometimes
particles. Pronouns are words like: I, me, we, us, you, he; his, her, my,
your; this, that; which, who, what.
Everything else is fine.
lay'tel SIvten