[Tlhingan-hol] Use of {net}

[Robyn Stewart]

Ø  I wonder. What other uses have you found for net in a sentence?
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> Would you, for instance, use qatlh DujlIj'e' nIHta' ra'wI' net SIv One wonders why the Commander stole your ship

 

Only if I was really speaking of a general wondering, not as an oblique way of saying that I wondered.

 


> or jagh Suvlu'DI' net taj jej lo'nIS; 

 

That’s ungrammatical. If net is the object of lo’nIS than taj jej cannot also be there. Change it to jagh Suvlu’DI’ taj jej lo’nISlu’ ... etc. and it’s fine.

 

Ø  Tell me how you have used it, or why you have avoided it.

 

You want me to grab all sentences containing net out of a 75,000-word novel?  I use it when I would use –lu’ except that the object of a verb is a sentence. If I ever use <‘e’ Xlu’> it’s an accident, although there are some such “accidents” of canon and some argue that there is a distinction.

 

-          Qov

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