[97822] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] je pense, donc je suis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat Jan 11 17:42:12 2014
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:41:37 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmNo1iTEdm4vhgTdzkBCkp+sMrODb+Hw_57CKZe49OOVXg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 1/11/2014 5:33 PM, De'vID wrote:
>
> Because today's KWOTD was {Qub}, @chaQDI posted the sentence {jIQub vaj
> jIHtaH} to Twitter.
>
> I recognised it immediately as a translation of "je pense, donc je
> suis", better known through the Latin "cogito ergo sum".
>
> Would you use {jIHtaH} for this or just plain {jIH}? I think I would
> have rendered it as {jIQubmo' jIH}. But I wonder if that wouldn't look
> like it was missing the second part of a complex sentence? (Because
> {jIH} looks like the subject of {jIQubmo'}.)
As far as I know the originals do not talk about ongoing being; they
just prove that because I do think, I must be.
Including {vaj} prevents the {jIH} being the subject of {jIQubmo'}.
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SuStel
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