tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 25 02:07:15 2001
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RE: Research question concerning negation
- From: Andrew <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Research question concerning negation
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:02:44 -0400 (EDT)
>While I can see your point, I don't think this really qualifies as
>ambiguity. Remove the negation and you get exactly the same need for context
>to fully understand the statement. {Soj Sam puq.} What is the question that
That is a very good point, which I hadn't thought about. Maybe -'e' (if it
is focus) would come to the rescue without negation as well. Daniela had
asked about negation, and I immediately thought of her native German, where
the "nicht" can go practically anywhere in the sentence, negating nouns,
adverbs, or anything else, and I wondered how Klingon would handle that.
Again, the so-versatile-as-to-be-nearly-useless -'e' to the rescue. :)
--Andrew Strader
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