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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/2021 8:48 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">De'vID and charghwI' I still can't understand
this.
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<div dir="auto">Suppose every klingon in the room knows that
kronos is surrounded by aliens.</div>
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<div dir="auto">And suppose that gowron knows that on monday of
all those aliens the romulans will be the ones who attack.</div>
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<div dir="auto">So he says {DaSjaj HIv romuluSnganpu'}. He
doesn't use the {-'e'} on romuluSnganpu' because the context
is clear.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Now suppose another scenario where although the
romulans usually don't attack, they will join in on the
assault but without gowron specifying when the assault will
happen.</div>
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<div dir="auto">So gowron says {vabDot HIv romuluSnganpu'}.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Now suppose that this
"unexpected/surprising/counterintuitive" attack will happen on
monday.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Now gowron says {DaSjaj vabDot HIv
romuluSnganpu'}.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Isn't the last sentence in a way the sum of the
previous two? Doesn't it combine the previous two sentences?</div>
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<div dir="auto">So can't it mean too "even on monday the
romulans will attack"?</div>
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<p>Adverbials apply to verbs, clauses, or sentences, not nouns. Like
suffixes, words coming before the OVS part of the sentence are
interpreted according to context; they don't modify each other
directly.</p>
<p>Interpreting that sentence with *even on Monday* is you choosing
a particular emphasis. It could mean</p>
<p><i>Even on Monday, the Romulans will attack.<br>
On Monday, even the Romulans will attack.<br>
On Monday, the Romulans will even attack.<br>
It's even true that the Romulans will attack on Monday.</i></p>
<p>The position of <b>vabDot</b> doesn't have anything to do with
exactly what about the sentence is unexpected. All the word means
is that the action that occurs is surprising or unexpected in some
way.<br>
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