tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 29 03:30:14 1996
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Re: First attempt
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: First attempt
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:29:59 -0500
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Internet & System Security Lab
- References: <[email protected]>
Whups, I goofed.
{beHwIjvam 'oH} is *not* grammatical, because both {-wIj} and {-vam} are
type 4 noun suffixes, and therefore cannot both be used at the same
time.
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Here go's nothing; beHwIjvam oH,(This is my rifle), was I even close?
> Very close. You missed the glottal stop at the beginning of the {'oH},
> and the sentence itself, while grammatical, is not quite equivalent to
> the English you gave. For "This is my rifle", I would use {beHwIj
> 'oH Dochvam'e'}, which we would usually translate back into English as
> exactly "This is my rifle", but which is more literally "As for this
> thing, it is my rifle."
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