tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 31 17:37:29 1998
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Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:36:23 -0800
At 16:59 98-01-31 -0800, SuStel wrote:
}-----Original Message-----
}From: Mark E. Shoulson <[email protected]>
}To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
}Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 1:44 PM
}Subject: Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
}
}
}>This is a significant point. I, too, believe that I would be far more
}>likely, at first hearing, to think "The captain was eating the squadron
}>which destroyed in the building" when I heard {qachDaq Qaw'bogh nawlogh
}>SoplI' HoD}. At least briefly.
}
}While I too believe there are better ways to say this, it is more
}troublesome when *reading* it than *hearing* it.
}
}If I were *speaking* this sentence, I'd put a pause in, thus:
}
}qachDaq Qaw'bogh nawlogh, SoplI' HoD.
I would then hear it as a sentence fragment followed by a sentence and might
ask: nuq Qaw' nawlogh? qachDaq nuq ta'?
}This pulls the sentence apart into pieces which can be managed: the locative
}is contained in one portion, the non-oblique (what's the word for this?!?)
}words in the other. The pause will tell the listener that the locative
}phrase is over, and here comes the next part.
}
}Though I understand the support for something like
}
}(qach Qaw'bogh nawlogh)Daq SoplI' HoD,
}
}I think it is truly nasty, and hope it is not the case!
Hard to hear.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian