[1433] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: relative clauses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 23 10:50:17 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 09:20:10 EDT
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> How shall I say "I see the child who hit the officer"?
I believe Captain Krankor addressed this quite well in an issue of
HolQeD. Unfortunately, I do not have my issues with me (they remain better
preserved if I do not carry them in my briefcase). I may be mistaken, but I
believe his suggestion was the use of the suffix 'e', meaning "topic",
thusly:
> Now:
> yaS qIppu' puq the child hit the officer
> +bogh yaS qIppu'bogh puq ? the child who hit the officer
> ? the officer whom the child hit
yaS qIppu'bogh puq'e'
It proved to be an elegantly simple solution, and well suited to the
function of the suffix.
-- charghwI'
