[tlhIngan Hol] to qaStaHvIS or not to qaStaHvIS

[mayqel qunenoS]

ok, thanks !

qunnoH jan puqloD
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'

On 29 Dec 2016 5:51 pm, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 December 2016 at 09:15, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ghunchu'wI:
> >> SuStel has already given exactly the reasonable arguments I would use.
> I don't know how to improve on them.
> >
> > maj. there you go ! I am an idiot, who is unable to understand the
> obvious.
> >
> > however, this is truly strange; through the 14 months I have been on
> > this list, we have discussed countless things; and always we came to a
> > conclusion.
> >
> > Unfortunately, at this thread, on this occasion, what has been said so
> > far fails to explain why the {Soch DIS vorgh jIQuch} is ungrammatical.
>
> The explanation seems fairly clear to me. What grammatical role does
> {Soch DIS vorgh} play in that sentence? It's either missing a verb
> ({qaStaHvIS}) that relates it to the rest of the sentence, or it's
> missing a noun which would turn it into a time stamp ({poH}).
>
> > The only reasonable explanation is, if someone wrote "because maltz
> > said so". Instead, there is no "maltz said so", but a countless list
> > of arguments which leads to nowhere.
>
> No, I don't think a ruling from Maltz is necessary here. Nothing in
> the known grammar of Klingon allows you to stick a period of time like
> {Soch DIS vorgh} in front of a sentence like you want.
>
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