tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 09 03:08:51 2001
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RE: Help for someone new!
- From: "Rohan Fenwick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Help for someone new!
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 07:59:56
jIjatlh:
> Ah, questions I can answer...
>
> <<wen>> nIbbogh mu' 'oH "months ago".
> The word "wen" means "months ago". It's an adverbial, AFAIK.
charghwI' ja':
>As the BG noted, {wen} is a noun.
qatlho' charghwI'.
Also, I have missed an <<-'e'>> suffix in the first sentence (I think):
<<wen>> nIbbogh mu' 'oH "months ago"'e'.
However, I could be wrong again... :)
BTW, has anyone thought of the possibility that the suffix <<-'e'>> may be
the modern last vestige of a nominative case in ancient Klingon? We know
that it marks the subject in quasi-copular sentences; might this usage have
extended to all sentences? Or am I just trying too hard to expand the
language in a dimension it's not intended to go?
Qapla' 'ej Satlho'
ro'Han
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