tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 04 14:46:45 2010
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Re: qoSwIj
On 1/4/2010 5:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Quoting Thorwald Peeters<[email protected]>:
>
>> DaHjaj'e' 'oH qoSwIj 'e' }}:-)
>
> Congratulations!
>
> But what is the function of the last {'e'}? I parse the stuff before
> that as 'My birthday is *today*', which seems perfectly logical and
> sufficient to my meagre knowledge of Klingon grammar.
The correct way to say "My birthday is today" is {DaHjaj 'oH qoSwIj'e'}.
The {-'e'} is required in any "to be" sentence.
I suspect Thorwald meant to emphasize the "today," as you guess above,
but then you'd have to put {-'e'} on two different verbs in the
sentence, and that'd be weird. We don't know if that kind of thing is
allowed.
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