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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 -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas --Scottish proverb