tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 17:24:59 1995
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Re: About {pong}
On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:
> > > recipient of the sentence (Just as if I said "I give the god a bone"...
> > hrm.... somehow i doubt that was intentional, but damned i wish it was!!!
> I assure you, it was not. Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.
'ach κκΗ
CQ
>
>
> > > the recipient is still the dog, right?). Okay, so then, if -vaD goes on
> > > the intended recipient, and the intended recipient is still the dog...
> > > why can't I say:
> > >
> > > targhvaD "Max" wIpong
> > >
> > > Comments? Linguists? (Nick? ~mark?)
> > >
> > > (I'm sure I left a few loopholes a mile wide in that logic... let's see
> > > 'em guys!)
> >
> > looks good to me... personally i find it more a matter of style than
> > anything else. whether i say <naQ'avwI' mupong tlhInganpu'> or
> > <jIHvaD *Silauren* lupong *elf*pu'> seems to me to amount to the same
> > thing: a construction that should make sense to nearly any <tlhIngan
> > jatlhwI'>, telling them that certain people know me by certain names.
> > *shrug*
>
>
> The only problem with charghwI's recasting is when the both the subject
> and the object need to be explicity stated, as well as the name. For
> example, how would you say, "The warrior named his son qeylIS"? Using
> charghwI's method, you can't. This way, you can:
>
> puqloDDajvaD qeylIS pongta' SuvwI'
>
> See what I mean?
>
>
> --tQ
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> --
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>
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