[102371] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Qun qa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Tue Nov 17 14:16:36 2015
In-Reply-To: <564B74F7.9020908@trimboli.name>
From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:15:59 -0500
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:41 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
> ... You couldn't add it after the verb, either,
> because {wI'el je maH'e'} that would mean something like "*WE* enter it in
> addition to some other thing we did."
Uh, no. {je} is a noun conjunction, not an adverbial. What TKD
actually says (in section 5.3. Conjunctions) is this:
> The noun conjunction {je} has an additional function: when it
> follows a verb, it means "also, too".
> {qaleghpu' je} "I also saw you, I saw you too"
> As in English, the meaning of such sentences is ambiguous:
> "I and others saw you" or "I saw you and others." The exact
> meaning is determined by context.
What it is *not* said to mean is "I saw (and did something else to) you."
That means {...wI'el je maH} would be perfect for the line in question.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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