Re: Concerning My Signature...
From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 19:52 |
Hello,
> > 1.) The most boring and straightforward: Write the sentence
> "You wish to
> > celebrate anything" with an "irrealis/conditional" marker,
> then append the
> > sentence "You can celebrate it". It does the job, but it's
> boring and
> > long-winded.
>
> Sounds like the way Klingon would do it... it seems to have rather
> clunky subordinate clauses (IIRC "I know that you spoke" comes out as
> something like "You spoke <subord> I know it".)
Yep.
bIjatlhpu' 'e' vISov jIH
To be quite precise. 'e' is an object pronoun, meaning _it_, and being
in apposition to _you spoke_ (bIjatlhpu') refers back to it.
Pavel
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