[tlhIngan Hol] Explicit pronouns again

Luis Chaparro Caballero luis.chaparro at web.de
Tue Oct 13 07:57:24 PDT 2020


 
 
 

Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2020 um 16:50 Uhr
Von: "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name>
An: tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org
Betreff: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Explicit pronouns again

On 10/13/2020 10:32 AM, Luis Chaparro Caballero wrote:
SuStel:

>> If you want to stress the jIH, kind of like raising your hand to be noticed, you might say puH Duj vIghaj jIH and say the jIH extra loudly. ("Ooh! Ooh! *I* have a car!" You're not excluding someone else from having a car. And you'd have to say the jIH loudly. Just saying jIH without stressing it isn't enough.)
Because if I don't stress the *jIH* or say it extra loudly, the sentence *puH Duj vIghaj jIH* would only be an extra clear version of *puH Duj vIghaj* (if I want to be extra sure people understand me), but it wouldn't make the effect of attracting attention, right?
> It attracts attention because you're being extra clear. What it doesn't do is add focus to the pronoun. It doesn't say "I and nobody else" the way jIH'e' does. If you happen to include an explicit pronoun where you didn't have to, nobody is going to stop you and ask, "Why did you emphasize the pronoun like that?" You just said a pronoun. No big deal.
 
Ok. I was just trying to understand why you said "Just saying jIH without stressing it isn't enough". I understood "isn't enough for attracting attention". If I don't stress it, it is "only" a redundant pronoun or an extra clear sentence. Maybe I'm missing your point, sorry.



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