tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 09 09:35:51 1996
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Re: partitives
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: partitives
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:35:49 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from AlanAnderson on Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:11:21 -0700)
>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:11:21 -0700
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>My phrase was: {"8mm" lo' pagh jupwI' Sum}. I intended it to mean
>"None of my nearby friends use 8mm [videotape]". The "none of my
>friends" meaning is what caught my eye today. Canonically, this might
>have to be interpreted more like "my zero friends", but I think the
>use of the type 4 noun suffix makes it ambiguous.
I'm inclined to accept it for "none of my friends." No canon, no certainty
in this. Just what my guts think.
~mark