tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 13 13:17:31 1999
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RE: chay' Dochmey vIjatlh?
- From: "Patrick Masterson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: chay' Dochmey vIjatlh?
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:16:58 PST
>Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:38:31 -0800 (PST)
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: chay' Dochmey vIjatlh?
>
>lab K'ryntes:
>
>> Andeen, Eric wrote:
>
>>> lab K'ryntes:
>>>
>>> > chay' <more> vIjatlhlaH?
>>> > *lutmey <more> vIqonnIS* vIjatlh vIneH.
>>>
>>> The word <latlh> is just what you want. <latlh> is one of those
words
>like
>>> <Hoch> that gets treated a little differently in the N-N
construction -
>it
>>> goes in front of the other noun. "More stories" or "other stories"
would
>be
>>> <latlh lutmey>.
>
>> So <latlh lut> would mean an additional story?
>
>HIja'
>
>> Does <latlh> mean "others" too? As in <latlhvaD jIvum.>.
>> I've seen it used that way. That would be, "I work for others."
>
>All by itself, <latlh> is "other, another". If the noun is obvious, as
in
>your example, it makes perfect sense to drop the noun and just use
<latlh>.
>
>
>pagh
>Beginners' Grammarian
>
>
>
Would I use latlh if I wanted to say, like "Give me another phaser," in
the sense of "Give me a different phaser" (perhaps the one I have
doesn't work, and I need a different one.) or would I use pIm?
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