[90594] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Tue Nov 8 14:53:48 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:50:48 +0100
To: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>, tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 18:16, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>> (Can the verb
>> {SIS} even take an overt subject in Klingon? It can't really in
>> English - *"the cloud rains" or *"the sky rains" seems off to me.)
>
> Yes, {SIS} has a subject.
>
> See http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/May/msg00518.html where
> DloraH reported a conversation he had with Marc Okrand:
>> SISlu', altho grammaticlly correct, he didn't particularly like. =A0Some=
one
>> COULD use it but to me it sounds like they skipped science class and don=
't
>> know what the subject is.
>> You can also give it an object and say things like the clouds rained down
>> cats and dogs. ...or something like that; you get the idea.
Ah - thank you! I was not aware of this particular bit of canon.
yInlu'taHvIS ghojlu'taH.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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