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Re: [KLBC] RE: *be'nI'nal

QeS 'utlh ([email protected])

• From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [KLBC] RE: *be'nI'nal
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:49:50 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>If an unstated subject is killing them...
>  either: be'nal SuvwI' je HoH 'oH

"It kills the wife and the warrior"

There's no unstated subject here. {'oH} is the subject, not only explicitly 
stated, but especially emphasised. (Explicit pronouns, as opposed to 
pronominal prefixes, appear as subject or object only when special emphasis 
is being drawn to that argument.) And {'oH} is also the pronoun referring to 
a being incapable of language. If it's a person you're talking about, you 
need {ghaH} instead.

>  OR: be'nal SuvwI' je HoHlu'

"The wife and the warrior are killed"

Strictly, {luHoHlu'}, because {be'nal SuvwI' je} is plural.

QeS 'utlh
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