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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2021 7:50 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">yaS luHoHpu', 'a be' luHoHpu'be' je</div>
<div>they killed the officer, but they didn't kill the woman too</div>
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<div>Seemingly/apparently the English sentence sounds strange; but
is there anything wrong with the Klingon one? Is there something
wrong in using the {je} "too" this way?</div>
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<p>Based on how <b>je</b> is presented in <i>The Klingon
Dictionary,</i> I don't think this is how it works. It appears
to be used when you want to change one element of the OVS part of
a sentence and compare it to the previous sentence.</p>
<p><b>SoHvaD 'uQ wej vIqem.<br>
Dargh vIqem je.<br>
</b><i>Conversational Klingon. </i>The changed element is the
food brought.</p>
<p><b>jIghung.<br>
jIghung je.</b></p>
<p><b>jI'oj.<br>
jI'oj je.<br>
</b><i>Power Klingon.</i> The changed element is the verb.</p>
<p><b>'ej ghIjpu' [tlhIngan may'Duj]<br>
nIteb ghIjpu' je [tlhIngan wo' Degh]<br>
</b><i>Skybox SP1.</i> The changed element is the thing doing the
scaring.</p>
<p><b>ghop luQan tajHommey.<br>
pe'laH je.<br>
</b><i>Skybox SP2.</i> The changed element is the verb.</p>
<p>And so on. So I don't think you'd combine <br>
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<p><b>yaS luHoHpu'</b><br>
and<b><br>
'a be' luHoHpu'be' je</b></p>
<p>in this way. Here, you're changing both the object and the verb.</p>
<p>Just say <b>yaS luHoHpu' 'a be' luHoHpu'be'</b><i> They killed
the officer but they didn't kill the woman.</i> The <b>'a</b><i>
but</i> handles the unexpectedness of the woman not also being
killed. If you wanted to emphasize the exception, you could say
something like <b>yaS luHoHpu' 'a yIntaHbe' 'e' luchaw'</b><i>
They killed the man but they permitted the woman to live.</i><br>
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