tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 29 21:57:33 1998
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Re: Much ado
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Much ado
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:53:36 -0400
From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
>At 03:47 PM 4/28/98 -0700, pagh wrote:
>
>>As an added speculation, when using an imperative with a state, I
>>sometimes use {-choH}, which sort of turns the state into an activity.
>>{yIjot} (be still) is just weird to my ear, but {yIjotchoH} (become
>>still) seems quite natural.
>
>{yIjot'eghchoHmoH} ? (I just can't think of a state as an activity,
>not even _taking on_ that state!)
No, just {yIjotchoH}. {jotchoH} "become calm" is definitely an activity,
not a state, so turning it into a command, {yIjotchoH}, should not require
{-'egh} and {-moH}.
SuStel
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