On 3/5/2021 8:19 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
Suppose we want to say: "if someone believes gowron is crazy, he's wrong".
There are two options:
maw' ghawran net Harchugh, vaj mujlu'.
maw' ghawran net Harchugh, vaj muj vay'vam/nuvvam/ghotvam/etc.
Given these two options, I would go with the first; using an indefinite subject and then immediately following it up with a reference to that subject “smells” off to me, even if I can’t necessarily say that it’s wrong.
It's like you're actively avoiding talking about a person, but then you have a reference to the person as though you were just talking about them.
Right. *vay'vam* presumes that there's a *vay'* in the first place, and an indefinite subject is not the same as *vay'.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name