tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 07 15:59:17 2004
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Re: joj usage...
ghItlh Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
>
> We have only one example of {joj}:
>
> poSDaq nIHDaq je QamtaHvIS SuvwI'pu', chaH jojDaq yItnIS lopwI'
> The initiate must pass through a gauntlet of warriors. S9
>
> Literally: "While warriors are standing on the left side and on the right
> side, the initiate must walk between them." Note the repetition of the
> suffix {-Daq} on both the area nouns {poS} and {nIS}.
>
So would something like:
SuvwI' targh je vIlegh 'ej chaH jojDaq jIba'
I see the warrior and the targh and I sit between them
Would stay within canon... What about:
SuvwI' jojDaq targh jojDaq je jIba'
I sit in the area between the warrior and the area between the targh
I'm not sure if I like this or not..
I can happily work around the "list of nouns as the first noun in a noun-noun
construction" problem, but how do we use joj to say between two items *without*
having another sentance before it pointing out the two items?
qurgh
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