[Tlhingan-hol] "Never give up; never surrender"

[Terrence Donnelly]

--- On Mon, 5/28/12, David Trimboli <david at trimboli.name> wrote:


> On 5/26/2012 10:01 PM, Terrence
> Donnelly wrote:
> >

> > How about using {-'e'}? I think we've lost a powerful
> tool by not
> > understanding its full possibilities as a topic-marker,
> {not Qu''e'
> > jIjegh, not jagh'e' jIjegh} "As for tasks, never
> surrender, as for
> > enemies, never surrender.}
> 
> Ha! I'm usually ignored when I suggest using {-'e'} in this
> way.
> 
> Per TKD 6.7, I'd probably arrange this as {Qu''e' not
> yIjegh; jagh'e'
> not yIjegh}. {Qu''e'} and {jagh'e'} are "elements of another
> type"
> (because they're not the objects of {yIjegh}, and {not}
> should go
> between them and the verbs.
> 

Really? I had no idea you supported this notion; I always thought I was alone in it.

I base my belief on {HaqwI''e' DaH yISam}; "As for the surgeon, find him now!". Of course, you are right about the placement vis-a-vis the adverbs.

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