tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 28 10:52:18 2004
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that (was: That's not canon)
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: that (was: That's not canon)
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:51:36 -0500
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QeS lagh:
>If {SISlu'} is not great, maybe there's no explicit subject on {SIS}, like
>in English: "It's clear to me that..." What is "It"? If you ask someone
>what
>"It" means in "It's clear to me that...", they'll probably stand there with
>a confused look for a while, then repeat their sentence.
Isn't the "it" in that situation acting like an "inverse-<'e'>"?
It refers to the entire sentence after "that".
Example:
"The sky is falling"
"It is clear to me that (the sky is falling)", i.e.
"That (the sky is falling) is clear to me"
It looks exactly like an "inverse-<'e'>" -- it acts as the
subject of the verb and refers to the next sentence!
This is probably wrong from a linguistic point of view but that's
what I thought as soon as I saw it.
--
De'vID
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