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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