tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 18 09:25:22 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghay
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robyn Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If I don’t repeat a subject phrase used for two verbs, I much prefer Hegh ‘ej rIQ SuvwI’pu’ law’. Interesting that it’s ‘ej not qoj or pagh there.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For me the two sentences are interchangeable, they just differ slightly in emphasis. {Hegh SuvwI'pu' 'ej rIQ} considers the actions in sequence, while {Hegh 'ej rIQ SuvwI'pu'} considers the actions together. I don't mean that they imply the events happened together or sequentially--just that the speaker, for whatever reason, wants to talk about them together or sequentially.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Consider these examples:</div><div>3. qarDaS HIvpu' 'ej charghpu' tlhIngan QI'.</div><div>4. qarDaS HIvpu' tlhIngan QI' 'ej charghpu'.</div><div>5. qarDaS HIvpu' tlhIngan QI' 'ej qaStaHvIS wej DISmey, charghpu'.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While 3 and 4 could mean the same thing, 5 has a wrinkle that I think justifies a sentence structure like 4.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:46 AM, ghunchu'wI' <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class=""><br></div>It seems to me less like repeating a subject and more like describing a second subject with the same words. If it were the same {SuvwI'pu' law'} in both sentences, I would expect a different conjunction.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>This also makes a lot of sense.</div><div><br></div><div>bI'reng </div></div></div></div></div>
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