[87042] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The topic marker -'e'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Nov 24 16:32:20 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:29 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <FAF7086C-B178-465E-B31A-990006A8F8F4@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Christopher Doty wrote:
>> There's no way that I can find in any of the Okrand sources for
>> obliques, instruments, etc.
>
> I don't see how this relates to anything, but "instruments" can be
> described thus:
> {lemDu' pe'meH vutwI', warjun lo'} "The cook cut the hooves with a
> cleaver."
Klingon does not have an instrumental case. What ghunchu'wI'
demonstrates here is the usual way of dealing with instruments, and we
have canon examples of this sort of thing.
> Alas, I find that "linguists tend to bring unnecessary preconceptions
> to Klingon" is too often the case as well.
I find that some Klingonists tend to hold unnecessary preconceptions of
linguists, and maybe they shouldn't do that.
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