#syntactic marker

[daily-klingon]

(1/4) Using 'e' in relative clauses (the Terran who drank the ale vs the ale drunk by the Terran)---I suggest adding this for completeness.

Were you thinking about

HIq tlhutlhta'bogh tera'ngan'e'

versus

HIq'e' tlhutlhta'bogh tera'ngan

or something similar?

In the first, the emphasis is on the Terran - e.g. tar tlhutlhlaw'ta' HIqvetlh tlhutlhta'bogh tera'ngan'e' I think that the Terran who drank that ale has been poisoned

In the second, the emphasis is on the ale - e.g. tar ngaSlaw' HIqvetlh'e' tlhutlhta'bogh tera'ngan I think that the ale that the Terran drank may have been poisoned

[daily-klingon]

How do you add a main clause to a subordinate or relative clause, when using 2 or more nouns? Eg: "When the dog barks, he wakes the neighbourhood," "The athlete who practices wins the tournament," "when the challenge is difficult, the rewards are great," and so on? Most of the examples in TKD involve only one noun and "I/you/me" etc prefixes. Once more nouns are used, and prefixes aren't used because the subject and object of all verbs are "he/she/it," how can you tell who is doing what to who?

The answer is is actually much bigger than you would expect it to be.

Sounds as if Monday's going to be the start of a new series of posts. I'm queued up till Sunday with posts already.

I'm going to bring in Klingon Teachings on this.

In fact, I could well title this series The Klingon Christmas Lectures.