tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 05 21:28:47 2001
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Re: was: `dative' / mIStaH pIl'o'
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: was: `dative' / mIStaH pIl'o'
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:26:39 -0500
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>> laH cha' nav neHlaw'.
ja' pIl'o':
>'ughlaw' nach HomwIj. jIHmo' yItuv.
qachuH:
[A typical Trekkie] seems to want his skills to show up in a photograph.
>> if <cha'> is verb in an object sentence, wouldn't it still need a syntactic
>> marker like <-bogh>? (paper which shows ability, for showing ability)
>>could this
>> approximate a dipomaor certification?
I'm not trying to say they want a diploma. I think that would actually
work in favor of someone deciding to learn Klingon -- the certification
pins do make for a nice bit of recognition. But they're just slightly too
small to show up well in a newspaper photo.
>> ...There are
>> languages where a negation idea requires "negative" grammar in multiple
>> places in a sentence, but Klingon is not one of them.
>
>DaH, loQ jIyaj.
>tuch'a' pab 'utlhpu'?
ghobe'. tuchbe'lu'. 'ach Dalo'chugh, yIyep.
chaq qech'e' DaneHbogh 'oHbe' qech Dajatlhbogh.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh