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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghay

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Fri Apr 18 12:22:00 2014

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:21:41 -0400
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <6C926D5B-CA9B-4ED5-ACD2-69D4795EFC9F@alcaco.net>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org

On 4/18/2014 11:46 AM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> jorwI'mey ghaymo' qarDaSnganpu', Hegh SuvwI'pu'lI' law' 'ej rIQ
>> SuvwI'pu'lI' law' Suffer major losses after Cardassian bombing
>> campaign. MKE
>>
>> BTW notice the repetition of the subject phrase {SuvwI'pu' law'}
>> "many warriors" in the main clause(s).
>
> It seems to me less like repeating a subject and more like describing
> a second subject with the same words. If it were the same {SuvwI'pu'
> law'} in both sentences, I would expect a different conjunction.

I expect this is correct. "SOME of your warriors die and SOME of them 
are injured." The ones that are injured are not the ones that died.

-- 
SuStel
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