[85691] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: chay' "Get out of the way!" ra'lu'?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Jun 3 12:12:19 2009
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:08:54 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A69244BF4804@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Steven Boozer wrote:
> Fiat Knox:
>> yIDev pagh yItlha' pagh HIwaQ 'e' yImev!
>
> Also, I'm not sure {pagh} "or else, either/or" works with three
> clauses. All canon examples have only two clauses, usually opposites
> (e.g. eat vs. drink, VERB vs. VERB{be'}, VERB vs. VERB{Ha'}). I
> would drop the first {pagh}:
I don't have it with me, but I'm certain THE KLINGON WAY has a sentence
that follows this pattern:
<verbal phrase>, <verbal phrase>, 'ej <verbal phrase>.
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