tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 31 11:47:45 2001
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Re: Questions
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:46:51 CDT
- In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:35:42 -0400
[email protected] said:
> majatlh nuvpu'. "We, the people, speak."
>
> The prefix tells you the subject is first person plural. The explicit
> noun {nuvpu'} tells you what "we" are: people.
the one objection I have about this is that in light of
TKD 5.6 I would interpret the {nuvpu'} as an address,
that is, I read {majatlh nuvpu'} as "People, we are speaking"
which not necessarily means that "we" and "people" refers
to the same entity (assuming context makes it clear this
is not a quote, meaning "we said <<nuvpu'>>")
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]