tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 01 18:02:16 2004
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Re: imperative with VS9 (-bogh)
ja' lay'tel SIvten:
>...In English the q.v. is used parenthetically as a reference...
bImISchu'. The "q.v." isn't English.
> In your rephrasing the emphasis shifts from "QIn
> ngeHpu' vavwI'" to "QIn yIlegh".
In the original phrasing, the emphasis *I* come away with is the extreme
weirdness of the attempted grammar. Any particular nuance of meaning is
overwhelmed by it.
If you want to emphasize {QIn ngeHpu' vavwI'}, just say it. Don't
interrupt it with an imperative *or* a relative-clause marker. Definitely
don't use both at once! There's a fundamental problem with what you're
trying to do. Klingon is so much easier to understand if you leave things
in small chunks. Try to avoid cramming multiple ideas into a single
sentence.