[87441] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Numbers with pronouns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Dec 2 18:22:01 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:18:33 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <a1173fff0912021509s3544dc69gef29c0fc9b133d0f@mail.gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Christopher Doty wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 13:00, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>> Yes, if you put suffixes on the pronoun, it's more verb-like than its
>> English counterpart. But I didn't say that {tlhIngan jIH} was
>> grammatically identical to "me Klingon"; I just said that saying one is
>> the same as saying the other. The overall EFFECT is the same.
>
> But these AREN'T the same. "I am a Klingon" is the same as Klingon
> <tlhingan jIH>. If you're trying to capture the ungrammaticality of
> the English,
No, that's not what I'm trying to do.
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