[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nugh

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 10:46:27 PDT 2016


ok, thanks !

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 7/11/2016 12:18 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>
> qunnoq :
>
>
> Other than that, the first sentence goes :
>
> {nughraj Dun lurDechmeyraj Dun je DIvuvta' 'e' lutul[]
>  HaDwI'pu' 'ej vItul jIH}
>
> But shouldn't there be an {'e'} before the {vItul jIH}?
> I mean, shouldn't we have the following sentence instead?
>
> I think that the second {'e'} before {vItul jIH} has been elided because 1)
> the two clauses are so short closely related (they have the same verb, if
> different subjects); and 2) a second {'e'} might make the listener think the
> sentence-as-object (SAO) referred to was {lutul HaDwI'pu'} and not
> {DIvuvta'}.
>
>   ... DIvuvta' 'e' lutul HaDwI'pu' ('ej vItul jIH)
>   The editors hope (and I hope) that we-have-respected-them
>
>
> I think it's DIvuvta' ('e' lutul HaDwI'pu' 'ej vItul jIH). The "second
> sentence" of the sentence-as-object happens to be a compound sentence, but
> it's still a sentence. The object of the vItul jIH part is still 'e', but it
> has been elided because it is was already used in the first sentence of the
> conjunction, exactly the same way that yaS vIlegh 'ej vIqIp elides an object
> noun in section 6.2.1 of TKD.
>
> Always, always, always remember that all sentence-as-object constructions
> are simply two sentences pushed together; 'e' and net are not conjunctions
> or linking words.
>
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