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<p>I may be making a generous interpretation for the sake of consistency, but I do think that there is a certain logic to this:<br>
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Clouds don't just produce rain; they become the rain, or at least parts of them do.</p>
<p>Similarly, the blood of the soldiers is both the source and the emanation.</p>
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<p>However, unlike the case with clouds and rain, we tend not to use different words to distinguish between blood coursing through a person's veins and blood flying through the air, so "the soldiers' blood" fits as both the subject or the object.</p>
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<p>//loghaD<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 14, 2021 1:47:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhIngan Hol mailing list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tlhIngan Hol] object of the verb {SIS}</font>
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<div class="PlainText">At/in klingonska we read:<br>
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<a href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-05-28-email.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-05-28-email.txt</a><br>
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SIS. In a way everyone was correct with this one. It rained a few<br>
times during the weekend, so we were put into the situation to discuss<br>
it.<br>
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SIS<br>
SISqu'<br>
SIStaH<br>
SISchoH<br>
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All correct. SISlu', altho grammaticlly correct, he didn't<br>
particularly like. Someone COULD use it but to me it sounds like they<br>
skipped science class and don't know what the subject is. You can<br>
also give it an object and say things like the clouds rained down cats<br>
and dogs. ...or something like that; you get the idea. But when Marc<br>
and I went outside and drops of water were falling on us, he looked up<br>
and simply said "SIS".<br>
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But at/in the paq'batlh we read:<br>
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{ghIq QavwI'chaj DuQchu' qeylIS betleH chaHDaq SIStaHvIS negh 'Iw}<br>
"Then Kahless's bat'leth pierced the last of them, showered with the<br>
soldiers' blood".<br>
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Why is the {negh 'Iw} the subject of {SIStaHvIS}? Shouldn't it be its'<br>
object? Shouldn't we have instead {negh 'Iw SIStaHvIS}?<br>
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~ Dana'an<br>
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