tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 20 07:17:47 2002

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Re: KLBC: RE: Enough.



I seem to recall a canonical example using the genitive noun-noun
with Hoch, in the same sense as English "all of the warriors"
== <SuvwI'pu' Hoch> (although in this case "the warriors' all"
means something entirely different in English).  Am I imagining or
misremembering things?  If not, would that mean that "all of us"
could be rendered as Hochmaj?

Or perhaps even in the first person we can give the pronoun-as-verb
an "explicit subject" via -'e', as we do in the third:
	
	tlhIngan Hol ghojwI'pu' maH Hoch'e'

Just speculating.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:37:10PM -0400, DloraH wrote:
> > tlhIngan Hol ghojwI'pu' Hoch maH
> Without a verb, /maH/ must act as the verb, and with this word order I get:
> "We are all of klingon students."
> 
> For "We all are klingon students" I would switch /Hoch/ and /maH/.
> ghojwI' maH Hoch'e'.
> But this is only if we can say "we all are".
> This isn't "all of us" because maH is acting as the verb; so we don't have
> it as part of a noun-noun.

--marqoS <[email protected]>


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