[Tlhingan-hol] vulqa'nganpu'

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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
> In English, we sometimes start a sentence with "But", but so far as we know, in Klingon, "but" is always a conjunction combining two sentences to form one longer sentence,

There's at least one canon sentence that just begins with {'ach}:
{'ach HoD, Hevetlh wIghoSchugh veH tIn wI'el maH'e'}
"But Captain, that course will take us into the Barrier as well."
(spoken by Vixis in Star Trek V)

Can anyone think of others, or any sentence beginning with {'ej},
{pagh}, or another conjunction?

lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
> and in Klingon you can't have a Sentence As Object construction with {'e'} referring back to a conjoined sentence. The {'e'} refers to the preceding sentence, not the first half of the current sentence.

QeS has already posted a canon counterexample, but even prior to that,
why do you believe that {'e'} in the second sentence of a compound
sentence can't refer to the first sentence in that compound sentence?
What rule(s) are you applying to come to that conclusion?

We all agree that these are two simple sentences:
{qama'pu' DIHoH}
{'e' luSov}

So what rule(s) about conjunctions prevents the formation of the
following compound sentence?
{qama'pu' DIHoH 'ej 'e' luSov} "We kill prisoners, and they know it."

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