tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 19 18:11:46 2007
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Re: {-Daq} in complex sentences (was Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe')
>> Without the right context, It could be misunderstood as referring to
>> *a* flee-er's ship instead of *the* specific ship of he-who-fled.
>> But it's hard to imagine a line like that coming without warning.
ja' SuStel:
> Now you're just looking for trouble.
DubepmoH nuq? jIja' ghaytan yap.
> Of course context will tell you
> whether it's "a" flee-er or "the" flee-er!
Isn't that what I said? It's not in exactly those words, granted,
but if you look again I think you'll see that it implies the same thing.
> This is always true in
> Klingon, where there are no articles to make this distinction for you.
Type 4 noun suffixes usually suffice to make the distinction. That's
why I thought {Haw'wI' Duj} had the potential to be less clear than
{DujDaj} after {ghaH} is specified.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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