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Re: Complex sentences and question words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 4 01:32:09 1994
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From: "Kevin Wilson (DV 1994)" <sparks@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 01:23:44 -0400 (EST)
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On Thu, 3 Mar 1994, Will Martin wrote:
> Okay, I held off to let the grammarians (who were addressed directly on
> this one) to go to it first, in a rare act of self control. Okay, I'll admit
> it. I wrote a reply and changed the address to my own instead of to the list.
>
> So please explain to me why {ja'} gets {'e'} here when TKD says that
> verbs of saying don't need it? Option 2 and 3 are exactly the same if you
> take {'e'} out of it, which is what *I* humbly think ought to happen.
>
> charghwI'
I agree that verbs of saying do not need 'e', but I was trying to make a
distinction between direct speech and reported speech. The TKD never says
that verbs of saying cannot have the 'e' pronoun.
Kevin A. Wilson
