<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">See my notes on punctuation.<div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 2/18/22 7:03 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] to roar in crescendo with verbs </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">jIH:<br>> qanchoHtaHvIS nuv, choHbe'; not choHbej vay'. <br>> 'a qaStaHvIS yInDaj DISmey, DI'onmeyna'Daj 'agh 'aghqu' 'aghchu'<br>SuStel:<br>> I wouldn't have any problem with someone stacking verbs<br>> this way in speech, but I wouldn't necessarily call it grammatical<br><br>I'm afraid I can't understand this.<br><br>In the {DI'onmeyna'Daj 'agh 'aghqu' 'aghchu'} sentence, the {DI'onmeyna'Daj} is the object of the {'agh}, and the subject of {'agh} is an omitted {vay'}. Can't the following verbs {'aghqu'}/{'aghchu'} have an omitted {DI'onmeyna'Daj}/{vay'} as object/subject?<br><br>I understand the reasoning why just writing {qaStaHvIS yInDaj DISmey, DI'onmeyna' 'aghtaH} is better, but I can't understand why the original sentence could be considered ungrammatical. I'm wondering whether there's something I'm missing regarding omitting subjects/objects.<br><br>-- <br>Dana'an<br><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br>Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div>
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