tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 19 16:58:41 2001
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RE: I dropped the computer; therefore it broke
- From: "Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: I dropped the computer; therefore it broke
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:48:51 -0400
I said:
> > {De'wI' vIchagh; vaj ghor} "I dropped the computer; therefore it
> broke."
qe'San said:
Still two sentences but could you also say "The Computer broke when
I
dropped it"
De'wI' vI'chaghDI' ghor
DloraH said:
But why did it break. It broke WHEN I dropped it, but was it
because it hit
the floor or did someone swing a baseball bat at it?
A different example:
jIpawDI' jIghung - As soon as I arrived I was hungary.
The reason I am hungary is not because I arrived. I would have been
hungry if
I arrived or not.
vaj gives a result of an action; similer to -mo', but still
different.
DloraH makes a good point here. You *can* say {De'wI' vIchaghDI' ghor}. But
it has a slightly different meaning than the original sentence.
If you use {-DI'}, you say that the events happened at the same time, but
they aren't necessarily connected.
Note that {De'wI' vIchaghDI'} cannot be used as a sentence alone, without
the main verb {ghor}.
So {De'wI' vIchaghDI' ghor} is one sentence, and not two.
- taD