tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 01 03:57:12 1999
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Re: Qa'Hom qaDHom (KLBC)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Qa'Hom qaDHom (KLBC)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 06:56:15 EDT
In a message dated 6/28/1999 10:56:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< < DubDaq QottaH Saj. >>
peHruS:
: chay' qechvam wIDelnIS?=A0 nuq 'oH mIw lugh'e'?
I no longer have mupwI's original post so I'm not sure as to which {mIw}
peHruS
is referring (but that won't stop me from commenting!). Is the question
whether "the pet is lying on its back" should be: >>
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My point is that the suffix {-Daq} refers to a place in a locative manner. I
think that {targh DubDaq ghew tu'lu'} is okay. This shows that the bug is
ON/AT the targ's back. I do not like, however, "lying on its back" being
expressed by {DubDaq Qot}. I have a problem: I translate this as "lying on
[someone else's] back." I cannot conceive of an entity lying down upon its
own back as the place of lying down. You see, I cannot escape from my own
body and subsequently lie down on the back part of my own body. {DubwIjDaq
ghopwIj vIlan} is okay.
Challenge: How do we say "lying on one's back"? My answer is way below.
peHruS
Qot targh. ravDaq 'oHtaH DubDaj'e'.