[Tlhingan-hol] vulqa'nganpu'
mayql qunenoS
mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 07:25:02 PST 2015
I still don't understand..
is this sentence right or wrong ?
maHotlaHmo' manenchoHlaH, 'ach tugh 'e' vItlhoj.
however soon I realized, that because we are able to feel, we are able
to grow/mature.
and if it is wrong, what is its wrong part ? the placement of the {'ach} maybe ?
cpt qunnoQ
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:01 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 12/31/2015 8:48 AM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv wrote:
>>
>> I'm more than a little certain that TKD explains that while we may
>> translate Sentence As Object into one sentence in English, in Klingon,
>> the two sentences are separate. A conjunction makes the two sentences
>> one. They are no longer separate.
>
>
> It explains that two separate and complete sentences may be used to form a
> "complex sentence," either as a "compound sentence" (with a conjunction) or
> as a "sentence-as-object" (with {'e'} or {net}), but it doesn't say anything
> about treating the complex sentence as an indivisible whole afterward.
>
>
> bISoptaH pagh bItlhutlhtaH
> You are either eating or else you are drinking
>
> {bISoptaH} is a sentence.
> {bItlhutlhtaH} is a sentence.
> {bISoptaH pagh bItlhutlhtaH} is a sentence.
>
>
> qama'pu' DIHoH 'e' luSov
> the know we kill prisoners
>
> {qama'pu' DIHoH} is a sentence.
> {'e' luSov} is a sentence.
> {qama'pu' DIHoH 'e' luSov} is a sentence.
>
>
> The individual pieces don't cease to be sentences even when the complex
> whole is also considered a sentence.
>
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