tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 16 19:42:48 2002
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Re: Hech (was: Re: SajwIj)
- From: "Sean Healy" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hech (was: Re: SajwIj)
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:09:21 +0000
>SENTENCE 'e' VERB is not analogous to
>OBJECT VERB. Actually the 'e' VERB part _is_ the entire
>OBJECT VERB complex. The pronoun {'e'} refers back
>to the previous SENTENCE, which is basically completely
>independent: {qagh vISop 'e' vIHech} is literally
>"I eat qagh. This I intend/mean to do". We punctuate
> the two phrases as one sentence, but that is not unheard of in Klingon:
>reported speech sentences using {jatlh} are also technically two separate
>sentences, althought punctuated as one.
A good point. But then {'e'} itself, as a pronoun, should be
interchangeable with any OBJECT. Of course, it no longer matters, as SuStel
has shown me canon that convinces me that {Hech} is an implied exception
which can only take {'e'} as its object, and not any other OBJECT.
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