[tlhIngan Hol] {net X} vs. {'e' Xlu'}

[Will Martin]

What you’ve written is not grammatically valid. You can’t put a Sentence As Object in the middle of a larger sentence. The {-‘e’} always refers back to a preceding sentence, not to an encapsulated one. One is forced to have the {-‘e’} skip back to the previous sentence, not place the previous sentence into the middle of the larger sentence. Like I said, it’s ugly.

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Jun 11, 2022, at 3:43 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Le sam. 11 juin 2022 à 15:41, Will Martin <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com <mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com>> a écrit :
> While we are celebrating new potential complexity, since that seems to be the whole point of this list much of the time,
> 
> The new information doesn't add any potential complexity which wasn't there before. It just explains a bunch of sentences that we already had in canon.
> 
> Good:
> {tlhIngan Hol ghojlu’chu’ ‘e’ chavlu’chugh QuchchoH Hoch}
> 
> Not so good, even if it is grammatically legal:
> {tlhIngan Hol ghojlu’chu’ QuchchoH Hoch ‘e’ chavlu’chugh}
> 
> It might be grammatically legal, but it doesn't have the same meaning. This sentence means "one learns Klingon perfectly, if everyone becoming happy is achieved".
> 
> The sentence I think you had intended would be:
> {QuchchoH Hoch, tlhIngan Hol ghojlu'chu' 'e' chavlu'chugh}
> 
> -- 
> De'vID
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