[Tlhingan-hol] meme question

[John R. Harness]

Apologies, I did miss this one -- I think the question hit the listserv
just before I saw the email letting me know that I had gotten the job ^_^



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> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:17:32 -0500
> From: Karen Alessio <karenalessio at gmail.com>
> To: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>
> Cc: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] meme question
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> thanks! :)
> I assume the linguist way to look at it is that since sentences with neH
> are probably so common that the 'e' eventually dropped out over time to be
> quicker... fictional evidence of language drift.
> Pretty cool.
> On Nov 23, 2015 3:58 AM, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Nov 11, 2015 9:13 PM, "Karen Alessio" <karenalessio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Ok, so I saw this Worf meme on the KLI facebook page, and I have a
> > newbie
> > >> grammar question.
> > >> I hope I can send an attachment to the mailing list. Sorry that it may
> > >> seem like a weird topic, talking about lovers and all, it was just the
> > >> grammar confused me.
> > >>
> > >> The phrase in question is written as "parmaqqaywI' SoH vIneH",
> > >> however I would like to know if maybe it would be more correct as
> > >> "parmaqqaywI' SoH 'e' vIneH" with something like 'e' there to mark the
> > >> depenant clause?
> > > oops I didnt put KLBC in the subject!
> >
> > Did anyone answer this? I think maybe 'arHa missed it because the
> > subject didn't say [KLBC]. Since it's been more than a week, .
> >
> > See section 6.2.5 of The Klingon Dictionary: "When the verb of the
> > second sentence is {neH} 'want', neither {'e'} nor {net} is used, but
> > the construction is otherwise identical to that just described."
> >
> > (As for why {neH} is such a special verb, that has to do with the
> > director of Star Trek III wanting to change the meaning of a line
> > which had already been filmed. That story's been told on this mailing
> > list hundreds of times by now, although maybe someone will want to
> > tell it again.)
> >
> > --
> > De'vID
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