tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 01 13:23:00 2004
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Re: The specifics of indefinites
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The specifics of indefinites
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:22:15 -0500
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qon QeS lagh:
>>It's just that I have seen <'e' Sovlu'> or the like crop up so many times
>>in my personal writing. Errors of grammar like these are part of my
>>Klingon, and I am doing my best to eradicate them one by annoying little
>>one. :)
qon Voragh:
>We have only one example of {Sovlu'}:
>
> De' lI' Sovlu'DI' chaq Do'Ha'.
> Knowledge of useful information may be unfortunate. PK
>
>Note that it is not used with {net} or {'e'}. That usage arose long ago on
>this mailing list and was passed on from one poster to another. Many of us
>think that it is unnecessary.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding something here, but why would one
be expecting <net> or <'e'> in the above sentence? <De' lI'>
is a noun, so the fact that <Sov> is used here without <net>
or <'e'> isn't surprising.
--
De'vID
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