<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Dana'an:</div><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif;display:inline !important">Colors aside, as far as grammar is concerned, should someone repeat the {je} twice?</span><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, sans-serif">"ship which searches and locates romulans, and traps them and kills them too"<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">romuluSnganpu' nejbogh 'ej Sambogh Duj, 'ej vonbogh 'ej peqbogh je</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">romuluSnganpu' nejbogh 'ej Sambogh Duj, 'ej vonbogh je 'ej peqbogh je<br></div><div dir="auto"><br>Which of the two would be the correct choice?</div></div></div></blockquote><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">They are both grammatically correct. I believe what you are asking is does Klingon have ellipsis. If we want an adverbial to apply to the sentences, can we drop it from the other?</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The answer is, in some cases, probably:</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>qaQaH</span> <span>DaneHbe'chugh</span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b><span>vaj</span></b> <span>qul</span> <span>wIchenmoH</span> <span>'ej</span> <span>matlhutlh</span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span>'Iw</span> <span>HIq</span> <span>yItlhutlh</span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span><br></span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span><i>If you don’t want my help,</i></span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span><i>Then let’s light a fire and drink,</i></span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span><i>Have some bloodwine!</i><br></span></span></div></blockquote><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span><span style=""><span><i><br></i></span></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Here <b>vaj</b> seems to apply to both lighting fire and drinking.</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">However, <b>je </b>is a bit special, so I'm not sure how ellipsis works with it. It might be clearer to repeat it.</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio</span></div><div class="protonmail_quote">
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On Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 16.17, D qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>
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<div dir="auto">Colors aside, as far as grammar is concerned, should someone repeat the {je} twice?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"ship which searches and locates romulans, and traps them and kills them too"<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">romuluSnganpu' nejbogh 'ej Sambogh Duj, 'ej vonbogh 'ej peqbogh je</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">romuluSnganpu' nejbogh 'ej Sambogh Duj, 'ej vonbogh je 'ej peqbogh je<br></div><div dir="auto"><br>Which of the two would be the correct choice?<br><br><div dir="auto" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Dana'an<br><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br>Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div></div>
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