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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2019 9:52 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7037db3c-d7dc-fc08-9242-798de28371b1@gmx.de">Sticking
closely to the rules:
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- The purpose clause always precedes the noun or verb whose
purpose it is describing.
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- qatlh "occurs at the beginning of the sentence."
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<p>Except we know that sometimes when Okrand says <i>sentence</i>
he means the verbal clause under consideration. You would not, for
instance, translate <i>I ask why I was chosen</i> as <b>qatlh
jIjatlh vIwIvlu'pu'?</b> A sentence-as-object is still a
sentence, but you'd put the <b>qatlh</b> with the piece it
belongs with: <b>jIjatlh qatlh vIwIvlu'pu'; qatlh vIwIvlu'pu'
jIjatlh.</b></p>
<p>It's a very murky area of Klingon grammar.<br>
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