On Oct 13, 2018, at 11:09, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 19:30, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote: Just noticed this line in paq'batlh:
DaH mararchuq mayIntaHvIS wa' Dol bIH qa''e' porgh'e' je
We are now connected, Spirit and body are one, Until our time comes.
What's of interest is the sentence wa' Dol bIH qa''e' porgh'e' je. This demonstrates clearly that when you've got a "to be" sentence with a topic as well as a noun, the pronoun agrees with the topic, not the first noun. wa' Dol is singular; qa''e' porgh'e' je is plural. bIH is plural. It's not wa' Dol 'oH qa''e' porgh'e' je.
I am experiencing {nIbpoH}, the feeling I have done this before...
[Enterprise explodes]
[Enterprise explodesqa']
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 19:36, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote: Another interesting tidbit from paq'batlh:
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First, in the {wa' Dol} line, we have the pronoun agreeing with the subject but not the object. {wa' Dol} is an {'oH}; {qa''e' porgh'e' je} are plural.
Second, we know that a {qa'} is capable of using language, but the combination {qa' porgh je} has gotten the pronoun {bIH}, which indicates no language ability. A {porgh} is undoubtedly an {'oH}, not a {ghaH}, so the conjunction of these two "genders" has led to the less language-capable one controlling the pronoun.
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