<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>[wrong button]</div><div><br></div><div>Okay, yes, this is “From the Grammarian’s Desk” which was a regular feature of HolQeD and was later reprinted as a collection, so it is both in HolQeD v1n2p4-5 and also in the separate publication entitled “From the Grammarian’s Desk". Citations should probably cite the original source, which was HolQeD.</div><div><br></div><div>It was not a canon example from Okrand, since this was June 1992 and we didn’t exactly have a lot of canon back then.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that in Krankor’s example he fully intended {chay’} to be a question word. “How do I own a great ship? Now you are beginning to understand that.”</div><div><br></div><div>He may have been stretching the grammar a bit to do this, since the {‘e’} is not really referring to the question so much as the ANSWER to the question. These were early days. I would not, now, present this as an example, and I’ll spare you how I would have translated it because you don’t care.</div><div><br></div><div>I think his argument was good, and he could have picked a clearer, less controversial example. I still applaud him for the degree of insight that he had, before most of us had heard of the language.</div><div><br></div><div>As iffy as this example may be, I don’t think Okrand improved things with his example that seems to have mistakenly put the adverb AFTER the {‘e’} instead of in front of it. There’s nothing in TKD that justifies THAT word order, but there it is. Canon. [Eye roll. Head slap. Head shake. Sigh.]</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t think that Okrand has ever explicitly spoken on the placement of an adverbial affecting the second verb of an SAO construction. I like Krankor’s approach better than Okrand’s, and in my remarkably limited writing in Klingon, I’ll probably follow Krankor’s placement because it seems to follow the rules of grammar in a more sensible way, and I simply don’t understand Okrand’s canon example at all.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean, we have several grammatical items that could appear before Direct Object. If {‘e’} precedes an adverbial, what about time stamps, Type 5 marked nouns, {-meH} clauses, etc.?</div><div><br></div><div>If Okrand really wants the {-‘e’} to precede the adverbial, then he’s got some ’splainin’ to do so we know how to form the second sentence of SAO when it is more complex than just a verb and a subject.</div><div><br></div><div>I really think the ball is in his court on this one.</div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 13, 2023, at 11:01 AM, Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Thanks to charghwI' for pointing at this. Now at last I know why I<br>remembered this phrase, even though it's not canon.<br><br>To all those who do not have HolQeD: The article is found in the book<br>"From the Grammarian's Desk", which is a collection of the HQ articles<br>by HoD Qanqor.<br><br>Am 13.04.2023 um 15:14 schrieb De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol:<br><blockquote type="cite">Was this Okrand's example?<br></blockquote><br>I think it's not. All of the article seems to be from HoD Qanqor. He<br>usually marks canon quotes clearly.<br> > I believe he was asked about this (or a<br><blockquote type="cite">similar) sentence and said that {chay'} is only a question word, and<br>doesn't act like a relative pronoun (meaning something like "the way in<br>which...").<br></blockquote><br>I remember something like that too. In my understanding, it's not used<br>like "I know how it happened." (Same also for qatlh)<br><br><br>--<br>Lieven L. Litaer<br>aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br>http://www.tlhInganHol.com<br>http://klingon.wiki/En/HolQeD<br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>