tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 02 08:08:04 2001
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Re: never bet on Star Trek trivia...
> > > > > If not, how is ((not)) used in a negative imperative sentence?
>
> > > > [not] is an adverbial and is placed at the beginning of the
> sentence.
>
> Does that have go at the very beginning of the sentence (after the
> subordinate clause?), or merely before the OVS part?
>
> I'm thinking I could address both the above points like this:
>
> tlhIngan Hol jatlhlaHchugh ghollI' Hov leng ngoDHommey'e' not
> yISuD
Correct. If you put it at the very beginning:
not tlhIngan Hol jatlhlaHchugh ghollI' Hov leng ngoDHommey'e' yISuD.
...the meaning certainly changes. This probably isn't the best example tho
because this actually still makes sense. hehe. But just because they don't
speak klingon doesn't mean you will win the trivia.
If you did:
tlhIngan Hol jatlhlaHchugh ghollI' not Hov leng ngoDHommey'e' yISuD.
[not] helps separate the clauses (the puctuation we mentioned earlier); and
knowing that leng is part of a noun-noun-noun group means that [not] must go
with SuD. But if you don't know that leng was being used as a noun, "The facts
never travel to the stars.", Hmm, that sounds like an interesting proverb.
So we end up right back to the example that you suggested above.
maj
DloraH, BG