tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 07 00:08:56 1995
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Re: Suppletion
> (For a similar argument in the other direction, does a German
> think "hand-shoes" when considering gloves, or are gloves and
> shoes conceptually unrelated?)
>
hmm.. usually I don't think of shoes when I talk
about gloves. On the other hand - wordplay based
on this would be quite readily recognized I think.
there is this classic joke about the wolf-dog and
the ant-bear...
Marc "Dochlangan"
by the way: the "Dochlangan" above is meant as an
apposition "one from Dochlan". the Skybox cards
left some confusion with me about that: names of
things follow the noun as in "qIvo'rIt pagh", names
of people precede the noun as in "qarghan HoD".
the distinction is not very clear to me - if there
was a word for "Mr." etc. would it precede the name
or follow it?
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Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
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