[Tlhingan-hol] je pense, donc je suis

[David Trimboli]

On 1/11/2014 5:33 PM, De'vID wrote:
>
> Because today's KWOTD was {Qub}, @chaQDI posted the sentence {jIQub vaj
> jIHtaH} to Twitter.
>
> I recognised it immediately as a translation of "je pense, donc je
> suis", better known through the Latin "cogito ergo sum".
>
> Would you use {jIHtaH} for this or just plain {jIH}? I think I would
> have rendered it as {jIQubmo' jIH}. But I wonder if that wouldn't look
> like it was missing the second part of a complex sentence? (Because
> {jIH} looks like the subject of {jIQubmo'}.)

As far as I know the originals do not talk about ongoing being; they 
just prove that because I do think, I must be.

Including {vaj} prevents the {jIH} being the subject of {jIQubmo'}.

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