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RE: transitivity

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: transitivity
• Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:57:16 -0600
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> > >> Like {Qong}, for instance. We just don't have any nouns that could  
> > >> possibly
> > >> come after {Qong}.
> > >
> > > yInwIj naQ vIQongtaH.
> > 
> > What is that supposed to mean?  "I slept my unbroken life" makes no  
> > sense to me, even if I accept that it's possible for something to "be  
> > slept".
> > 
> Are you paraphrasing {naQ} 'be full, whole, entire, complete' 
> as 'unbroken'?
> 
> "I'm sleeping my whole life" 'e' vIHech.
> 

If you want "whole" as in "all of" then you would use /Hoch/.
But in the sense of Qong, I believe the time frame would have to be in a
-taHvIS.


DloraH

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