tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 27 20:40:32 2006
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pronouns
- From: Shane MiQogh <[email protected]>
- Subject: pronouns
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:40:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Maybe i was wrong when i keep thinking of pronouns as forms of "to be." On recent documentation of japanese a new concept came into my head. "to be" in english has 2 meanings, "equals" and "exist." Equals is considered a "copula" which, in japanese, is considered to be seperate from a verb. Despite it's conjugated in almost every language that conjugates verbs and has "the copula". Theoretically, one could say this is marc okrand making Klingon even more unique by having a cupola that "conjugates" per subject that it is used with. Just a random thought.
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