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Re: KLBC: "in life"

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: KLBC: "in life"
• Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:22:06 EDT

In a message dated 7/18/2006 10:41:37 AM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Since the second {-'e'} is required on the subject of an equational 
> sentence, we're back to recasting the "in life" bit again.  I would use the 
> verb {yIn} "live, be alive" plus {-taHvIS} in an introductory 
> clause:  {bIyIntaHvIS} "while you are living, when you are alive":
> 
>    bIyIntaHvIS Dochmey nIv bIHbe' Dochmey'e'
> 

Or simply 
yIn Dochmey nIv - the best things OF life
which preserves the vagueness of the original noun phrase in English.

lay'tel SIvten

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