tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 23 19:51:32 1996
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Re: summer [KLBC?]
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: summer [KLBC?]
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 22:53:26 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:17:00 -0700 Alan Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> voqHa'wI' writes:
> >QaQ *summer*. DaH *summer* wIghajbe';
> >*winter* wIghaj. naDev wIbIrqu' jay'!
>
> "Summer is good. We don't have summer now;
> We have winter. We are very $#@% cold here!"
>
> Your grammar is fine; this makes perfect sense.
Qagh yInejqa'! {wIbIrqu'}? "We very cold it/him/her/them."? Are we using {naDev} as a noun
and using it as an object of a mysteriously transitive "be cold"? bIvumqu'ta'. bIDoy'law'.
yIleS.
DaH yIleS 'e' yImev! yIbuS! yIqIm! {{;)>
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
charghwI'