tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 27 17:22:48 2001
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Re: Klingon translation interest
Jiri:
> > How can sentence as object be used with verbs of being? Is there some
> > standard way of handling that, or does one simply have to keep
> > recasting until it goes away?
SuStel:
> You mean how can Sentence As Object be used when the second verb is
> really a pronoun? I doubt that you can.
Hmm, <<jaw ghoS 'e' jIH>> (I am the Way). But there's probably better ways
of saying that.
> Do you mean how can Sentence as object be used when the second verb is a
> verb of quality? They don't take objects, so you can't.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Is there a standard idiom around that?
Jiri
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