<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail-"></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Is </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">{chabHommeylIj Sopta' vIghro'wIj 'e' 'oH vIt'e'} correct ?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okrand has never used or commented on using {'e'} with a copula pronoun (i.e. a pronoun used verbally to mean "to be"), so we don't know if {'e' 'oH} constructions are acceptable or not. If they are, though, your sentence is probably grammatically acceptable, though a little redundant. There is the question of whether {vIghro'mey} and other animals are actually capable of intention and can therefore use the {-ta'} suffix, though that's more of a philosophical question than a syntactic one.<br><br></div><div>(Although, since {'e'} is a pronoun, maybe it can be used as a copula too... perhaps {chabHommeylIj Sopta' vIghro'wIj 'e' vIt'e'}? Actually, no, that's too crazy even for me.)<br><br>On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">The proposed version with <b>‘e’ </b>might
be technically correct, but I have a hard time believing Klingons use
verb-acting pronouns in sentence-as-object constructions. The final verb
in an SAO should generally be something simple and unexceptional.<br></p></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>This sounds more like a subjective stylistic choice rather than a grammatical rule. I agree that in most cases there's probably shorter or clearer ways to phrase a given sentence than {'e' 'oH}, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely just because most Klingons wouldn't phrase it like that.<br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>