[tlhIngan Hol] How many times do we need to repeat the -neS ?

[Will Martin]

I’d just put {-neS} on the main verb, {DanatlhneS}. It’s like a bow that you make at the end of your speech. You don’t want to be bowing over and over again as you speak.

The other verbs are already grammatically burdened, displaying their dependency upon the main verb at the end. Let that main verb carry the weight of the honorific.

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> On Feb 20, 2019, at 9:21 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Suppose we want to say:
> 
> {nov Dun, Hoch jaj bIvemDI', nIQlIj DatIvmeH, vaghmaH Sor Sopchugh,
> vaj tagha' chal bIQ ngem Hoch Danatlh}
> "great alien, each day as soon as you wake up, in order to enjoy your
> breakfast, if you eat fifty trees, then finally the entire rain forest
> will be gone"
> 
> (I wonder how I keep thinking this kind of sentences..)
> 
> Anyway..
> 
> If we want to make this sentence honorific, then were do we place the
> -neS ? With the exception of the Dun which is used as an adjective,
> then do we need to place -neS on every single verb of that sentence ?
> 
> That is should we write:
> {nov Dun, Hoch jaj bIvemneSDI', nIQlIj DatIvneSmeH, vaghmaH Sor
> SopneSchugh, vaj tagha' chal bIQ ngem Hoch DanatlhneS} ?
> 
> Or if we used -neS fewer times, or maybe only once, it would suffice too ?
> 
> ~ mayqel *capricorn* qunen'oS
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