tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 04 19:32:07 2007
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Re: Basic grammar question
ja' SuStel:
>> From: "Marc Okrand" <[email protected]>
>>
>> matay' jIH molor tuq je
>>
>> Sutay' SoH molor tuq je
>
> Aha! This also shows that Klingon doesn't mimic the English rule of
> putting first and second person pronouns before third person nouns and
> pronouns in the subject. I knew we had an example of that somewhere!
I don't understand. These Klingon sentences *do* put first-person
{jIH} and second-person {SoH} before third-person {molor tuq}. I
also don't recognize the English rule you're referring to.
(There is a rule the other way around, saying that "he and I" is
preferable to "I and he", but I learned it as a rule of etiquette,
not one of grammar.)
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