[Tlhingan-hol] Weather infinitives

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SuStel:
>> I was thinking about how Okrand side-stepped the issue of the subject of
SIS
>> (and peD) by simply looking up and saying, {SIS!}

ghunchu'wI' 'utlh:
> He didn't sidestep it. He didn't state the subject when he *used* the
> word, but he had already indicated what it was.
>
> http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/May/msg00518.html
> | [reported by DloraH]
> | SISlu', altho grammaticlly correct, he didn't particularly like.
 Someone
> | COULD use it but to me it sounds like they skipped science class and
don't
> | know what the subject is.
> | You can also give it an object and say things like the clouds rained
down
> | cats and dogs. ...or something like that; you get the idea.

And don't forget Sonnet 116, where {jev} has {mud} as its subject.


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