tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 15 10:19:36 1996
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Re: Hello.
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 22:21:19 -0700
>From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
>>>yIn nI' Daghajjaj! (< may you have a long life)
>>
>>I've always liked "nI'jaj yInlIj."
>>
>>~mark
>This falls under the same concept: if you have a verb which is being used
>as either an adjective or has been nominalized, then you canprobably re-cast
>the sentence to use the verb as a VERB, and it will be "neater". Just my
>$0.02...
It also neatly sidesteps the problem of the polysemy of "have" in English.
It has gobs of meanings, at least some of which are probably wrong for
"ghaj." Remember "Your mother has a smooth forehead"? No "ghaj" there:
Hab SoSlI' Quch. A great many of those "have"s are a lot smoother using
N-N constructions instead.
~mark