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Re: Starting and Confused: Grammar Q
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 24 01:40:56 1993
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From: erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider)
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From: Gregg Kinkley <70410.1373@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 23 Jun 93 20:47:11 EDT
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> I hope I am not starting out on the wrong foot like some
>varool (forgive my Rihansu) by asking what may be a very simple
>grammar question, but having scoured Okrand's reference grammar, I
>still find no way to make simple "X because Y" sentences.
>For instance, I was going to say as my first forum message: "I am new
>to this forum. I am afraid to write Klingon BECAUSE I cannot speak it." My
>version of this was going to be:
>
>"ForumvamDaq jIchu'. tlhIngan-Hol vIghItlhvIp vIjatlhlaHbe'"
>but it is obviously missing what I guess would be a suffix on the last verb
>string. Any suggestions?
In the second edition of the Dictionary the type 9 verb suffix "-mo'"
is added, which has the meaning "due to, because of". This is the
suffix you'd use.
"Forum"vamDaq jIchu'. vIjatlhlaHbe'mo' tlhIngan Hol vIghItlhvip.
>Also, I wonder if you guys have been systematically adding to the
>vocabulary, developing more grammar, etc.
Most empathically not! Purism is the rule here. We adhere as closely
as possible to TKD as we can.
-QumpIn 'avrIn
