[87582] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Jan 4 17:47:14 2010
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:45:37 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <20100104232750.62121guhctlqgku8@letter.sics.se>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 1/4/2010 5:27 PM, kff@sics.se wrote:
> Quoting Thorwald Peeters<qlingon@xs4all.nl>:
>
>> DaHjaj'e' 'oH qoSwIj 'e' }}:-)
>
> Congratulations!
>
> But what is the function of the last {'e'}? I parse the stuff before
> that as 'My birthday is *today*', which seems perfectly logical and
> sufficient to my meagre knowledge of Klingon grammar.
The correct way to say "My birthday is today" is {DaHjaj 'oH qoSwIj'e'}.
The {-'e'} is required in any "to be" sentence.
I suspect Thorwald meant to emphasize the "today," as you guess above,
but then you'd have to put {-'e'} on two different verbs in the
sentence, and that'd be weird. We don't know if that kind of thing is
allowed.
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