tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 18 11:37:26 2007
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:35:18 -0800 (PST)
- Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=fM3IWELvmrsqUqrD5yqWxpLc7ZYwyWr/ngRVOwsnaIuGZT7x67QJjOxMRXWGXDu6oRjp3PNmL4ELN4CLYCAW+WUgQObFu/5x/4y54lJtPqUFcN+GuMGA2Xfuv1P6/9X4UdCfcxJbPdGPnGSHuM+c3V/4l3W8oHB3oIvKJMaHKIk=;
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
--- David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't call {naDev} the topic in this sentence;
> it's the beable. It's
> just in the wrong position.
>
I've been trying to come up with an alternative to
"beable", which bothers me for a number of reasons,
not least because I persist in reading it as "beeble"
until my brain does a double-take and resegments it
into "be+able".
It turns out there is already an English word
reasonably close in meaning to what's needed:
"predicative". Wiktionary defines it this way (note
particularly the last sentence, with suitable
adjustment for Klingon word order):
+++
predicative: (grammar) An element of the predicate of
a sentence which supplements the subject or object by
means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or
adjectival. A nominal predicative is a noun or pronoun
that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
+++
If we want to be precise, we're talking only about
nominal predicatives, but since adjectives don't
appear in pronoun-as-verb clauses, the distinction
hardly seems worth insisting on.
How does this strike people?
-- mI'qey
____________________________________________________________________________________
Looking for last minute shopping deals?
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping