Re: Translation Project! (was Re: Let the hammer fall!)
From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 21, 2001, 20:40 |
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:
>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>>¡Que caiga el martillo! Actually, in the context of a batttle-cry, I
>>wonder if you couldn't drop the "que"?
>
>I'd think it was possible. The verb gets the point across i think. It
>sounds a little funny to have Que in front of the verb like that, and the
>phrase not as a subclause.
Then tack an ojala in front! If I remember right, such clauses
can be introduced by other verbs (querer, etc.)
Padraic.
>Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia