[85768] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat Jun 20 18:49:34 2009
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:47:13 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <54182.90028.qm@web82607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
>
> --- On Sat, 6/20/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>
>> Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>>> Not to be a contrarian or anything, but what about the
>> proverb
>>> {meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH}? I know MO originally
>> said he
>>> couldn't make relative clauses work as anything but
>> subjects or
>>> objects, except here he did.
>> He couldn't make the head noun of a relative clause be anything
>> other than the subject or object *of the relative clause*, not of
>> the main sentence.
>>
>
> Now this I can agree wholeheartedly with. But is it then possible
> that the head noun can be either the subject, object, or _any Type-5
> suffixed noun_ to the main verb?
I don't see why not. They're very easy to construct.
DujDaq vIje'bogh bIba'.
You sat in the ship which I bought.
meQtaHbogh pa'vo' yIHaw'!
Get out of the burning room!
mangghommo' vIra'bogh tlhab yuQvam.
This planet is free because of the army I command.
qoghDu' tlhaQ ghajbogh tera'nganvaD chaw' yInob.
Give the Terran with the funny ears a permit.
qIbDaq tlhIngan Hol jatlhbogh SuvwI''e' SoH Dun law' HoS Dun puS.
You are the greatest Klingon-speaking warrior in the galaxy.
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SuStel
Stardate 9470.0
