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Re: }} KLBC: Life is like...



In a message dated 95-08-08 23:58:27 EDT, you write:

>> nuq DaSuQ 'e' not DaSovbej
>
>nuqjatlh?  "You certainly never know you are toxic it what?"
>
>Note that {nuq} is used to ask questions, it does not mean "what" in the 
>sense "I know what you said".
>
>{SuQ} is intransitive, so it can't take an object, or a prefix like {Da-}.
>
>{'e'} is the object of {DaSovbej} and adverbials come before the object, 
>so you would say {... not 'e' DaSovbej}.
>
>> peHruS
>
>yoDtargh

Since we have been discussing and concluding that we shall use <nuq> in the
Noun 2 position to mean "which," I shall rephrase the above to:

ta' nuq Data' not 'e' DaSovbej

SuQ should have been Suq all along.

If I had found a word for "results," I would have stuck with *result nuq
DaSuq not 'e' DaSovbej

peHruS



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