{verengan 'opuHwI' ghaH SoSlI''e'; 'e''e' wISovmo', not Qang Damoj} Your mother is a ferengi prostitute; because we know THAT, you will never become a chancellor On 1/15/2020 9:41 AM, Will Martin wrote:
I’m just curious. What does this rather complex construction give you that the simpler {verengan ‘opuHwI’ ghaHmo’ SoSlI’’e’, not Qang Damoj} fails to convey?
Emphasis. *tlhIngan wa': Qang vImoj 'e' vIHech. jIHoS! jIval! jI'IH! jInIvmo' Qang vIgheS 'e' vIqotlh.* *tlhIngan cha': bIHoSbej. bIvalbej. bI'IHbej. 'ach verengan 'opuHwI' ghaH SoSlI''e'. 'e''e' wISovmo', not Qang Damoj.* /Klingon One: I intend to become chancellor. I'm powerful! Clever! Good-looking! Because I'm superior, I deserve to take on the mantle of chancellor./ /Klingon Two: You certainly are powerful, clever, and good-looking. But your mother is a Ferengi prostitute. Because we know THAT, you will never become chancellor./ It's not necessarily the most concise way to say something like this, but it places emphasis on the /THAT/ which your alternative doesn't. The emphasis makes it clear that it's DESPITE all those things going for you that you won't become chancellor. If the second Klingon had simply said: *bIHoSbej. bIvalbej. bI'IHbej. 'ach verengan 'opuHwI' ghaHmo' SoSlI''e', not Qang Damoj.* /You //certainly are powerful, clever, and good-looking. But because your mother is a Ferengi prostitute, you will never become chancellor./ then the emphasis on the implied /despite/ doesn't appear. Anyway, the point of the question was not to convey any particular idea, it was to construct a grammatical sentence that included a type 5 suffix on *'e'.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name