[1483] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Where am I?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 1 19:10:54 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 14:38:15 -0400
Indeed, I would claim that both Randall and charghwI' have valid parses
of naDev vISovbe'. It could either be "I don't know here" (i.e. I don't
know this place) or "I don't know it here." In fact, it could just as
easily be "I don't know him/her/them here." As is so often the case in
tlhIngan Hol, only context can help disambiguate. More and more I keep
finding that this reliance on context is really not a problem. But yes,
charghwI' is right that naDev, as a noun, *could* indeed be an object,
even if in practice it rarely takes this role.
--Krankor
