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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] je pense, donc je suis

David Trimboli ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

On 1/11/2014 5:33 PM, De'vID wrote:


Because today's KWOTD was {Qub}, @chaQDI posted the sentence {jIQub vaj
jIHtaH} to Twitter.

I recognised it immediately as a translation of "je pense, donc je
suis", better known through the Latin "cogito ergo sum".

Would you use {jIHtaH} for this or just plain {jIH}? I think I would
have rendered it as {jIQubmo' jIH}. But I wonder if that wouldn't look
like it was missing the second part of a complex sentence? (Because
{jIH} looks like the subject of {jIQubmo'}.)
As far as I know the originals do not talk about ongoing being; they just prove that because I do think, I must be. 

Including {vaj} prevents the {jIH} being the subject of {jIQubmo'}.

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