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RE: subordinate clauses (was KLBC)




> >  yejquv DevwI' moj ghawran 'e' wuqta' cho' 'oDwI' Dapu'bogh
> >   janluq pIqarD HoD.
> >  Gowron... named leader of the High Council by Captain Jean-Luc
> >   Picard, who was acting as Arbiter of Succession. S25

SarrIS: 
> This is a fine example of Okrand violating his most frustrating rule as he 
> puts {-ta'} on {wuq}, the second verb of a Sentence As Object. We are told 
> in TKD that we are not supposed to do this. I hope we can consider this to 
> be an outdated rule, since Okrand has broken it a number of times, and he 
> has told us that usage is the key to understanding the language.

chutvam meq yIDel.
What was the reason for the rule?


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