tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 05 19:13:08 1995
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Re: }} -mo' and N1's N2
- From: Jeremy Cowan <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }} -mo' and N1's N2
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 18:13:08 -0500 (CDT)
On Sat, 5 Aug 1995, Alan Anderson wrote:
> Come on, people. Is this to be simply a "charghwI'/ghunchu'wI' debate"?
> Let's get some more critical thought in here.
I'm enjoying learning from your "fight". It is a good battle and it
shows that both of you are great "Hol vaj". However, for myself, I'm not
ready to chose sides. This is a difficult topic and I learn something
new with each post. You two are doing well enough without outside help.
However, when I do have a point to make I will make it, as you will see
below.
> Oh? {nom pumtaHvIS nagh jIghItlh.} TKD 5.4: Adverbials "...usually come
> at the beginning of a sentence...." Is the rock falling quickly, or do I
> write quickly?
TKD 6.7 (p.179): "the adverbial precedes the object-verb-noun
construction." Reading that in context it is pretty clear to me that
{nom pumtaHvIS nagh jIghItlh} = I write as the rock quickly falls.
and
{pumtaHvIS nagh nom jIghItlh} = I write quickly as the rock falls.
It turns out that -wI' is unique in this since the verb is no longer a
verb in the sentence and so can still confuse the adverb. Doesn't make
it right or wrong, but it does change your argument.
janSIy