tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 03 10:25:06 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mutually subordinate clauses?
At 08:35 '?????' 6/3/2012, De'vID jonpIn wrote:
I suspect that most people would understand the following sentence,
but is it grammatically aberrant?
{mapawbe'chugh wIHIvlu'pu'mo'}
I read it as "If we do not arrive, on account of being attacked ..."
and await the reset of the sentence. I recommend that when you ask
questions like that that you separate what you think the sentence
means with more space, to avoid having people's interpretations
coloured by your expectations.
"If we do not arrive, it is because we
have been attacked."
For that you need perhaps {mapawbe'chugh, wIHIvlu'pu'mo' qaS} or
{mapawbe'chugh wIHIvlu'pu' 'e' yIpIH} or {mapawbe'chugh,
wIHIvlu'pu'mo' mapawbe'.}
Does it need to be recast as something like one of the following?
{mapawbe'chugh wIHIvlu'pu'mo' mapawbe'}
{mapawbe'chugh vaj wIHIvlu'pu'}
The latter doesn't make the cause and effect clear.
(I didn't invent the original sentence, I read a sentence like it
somewhere and understood it, but its grammar bothered me a bit so I
replaced the words to form a grammatically equivalent sentence, for
the purposes of discussing it.)
I hope it wasn't in nuq bop bom.
- Qov
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