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Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'

David Trimboli ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



Alan Anderson wrote:
> ja' SuStel:
> 
>> YES! How many times do I have to say it? WE DON'T HAVE PROPER KLINGON
>> GRAMMATICAL TERMS SO I'M USING APPROXIMATIONS TAKEN FROM ENGLISH.
> 
> So what's wrong with calling it "pronoun as verb"?  Why bring in an  
> approximation from outside our experience when we can name it  
> directly, using the same words TKD uses to describe it in section 6.3?

For the same reason we don't only call a subject a "noun phrase that 
does something."

SuStel
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