[1060] in tlhIngan-Hol
instrumental case which isn't there
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 25 21:41:01 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Randall Holmes <holmes@diamond.idbsu.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 14:44:13 -0600
A question (or proposal):
Can the special sentence pronoun 'e' take noun suffixes?
If it can, can the vexing problem of the instrumental be
solved as follows:
verengan vIHoHpu' 'e'vaD tajvam ghaHpu'
I killed the Ferengi with this knife,
literally "I killed the Ferengi; for that, this knife was".
This seems reasonably economical; the really superfluous
seeming element is the pronoun used for "to be" which is needed to
complete the second sentence; I felt the need to make it agree in
aspect with the verb in the main sentence, but this is optional.
--"Randall Holmes" mughlaw'wI'
