tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 31 08:48:45 2004

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

Re: ghunchu'wI' QIn vIyajmeH QaH vIpoQbej.

David Trimboli ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



From: <[email protected]>

> In a message dated 2004-03-30 8:02:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > majIv reH 'e' Daqapmo' jIberghchoH.  qatlh Sovna'maj DatennIS?  not ngoD
> > Sovlu'pu' 'e' DaQub'a', DalIjpu'chugh SoH?
> >
> chay' Damugh?
> "i get irritable because you insist that we're always ignorant.  why do
you
> need to embark our 'definite' knowledge?  do you think that a fact is
never
> known if *you* forgot it?"
> why is {reH} where it is?

{reH} is the adverbial for the sentence {'e' Daqap}.

reH 'e' Daqap
you always insist that

> shouldn't it precede {majIv}: "we're always
> ignorant"?

No, because he doesn't mean "You insist that we're always ignorant," he
means "You always insist that we're ignorant."

> what does {ten} mean here?

He meant {tem}.

'ej berghchoHbej.  ghaytan wa'Hu' po qa'vInDaj tlhutlhbe'.

SuStel
Stardate 4248.3





Back to archive top level