tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 08 11:53:42 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
- From: Philip Newton <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:50:48 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 18:16, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (Can the verb
>> {SIS} even take an overt subject in Klingon? It can't really in
>> English - *"the cloud rains" or *"the sky rains" seems off to me.)
>
> Yes, {SIS} has a subject.
>
> See /tlhIngan-Hol/1998/May/msg00518.html where
> DloraH reported a conversation he had with Marc Okrand:
>> SISlu', altho grammaticlly correct, he didn't particularly like. Someone
>> COULD use it but to me it sounds like they skipped science class and don't
>> know what the subject is.
>> You can also give it an object and say things like the clouds rained down
>> cats and dogs. ...or something like that; you get the idea.
Ah - thank you! I was not aware of this particular bit of canon.
yInlu'taHvIS ghojlu'taH.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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