tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 29 11:21:11 1993
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What *did* we ask Okrand?
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: What *did* we ask Okrand?
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:19:53 -0500
- In-Reply-To: Nick Nicholas's message of Thu, 25 Nov 1993 12:07:56 +1100 (GMT) <[email protected]>
>From: Nick Nicholas <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 12:07:56 +1100 (GMT)
> Maybe leS and ben could be added as expressions in their
>own right, without requiring a number: "leS, yIchegh'egh!" --- "One day
>[in future days], I will return." (which is neither "tugh yIchegh'egh", nor
>wej yIchegh'egh). More grammatically conservative would be: "law'DI' leS,
>yIchegh'egh".
I don't see that "leS" by itself is at all iffy. It exists just fine in
the dictionary as "days from now", flagged as a noun, same as "wa'leS" and
"cha'leS", and just as obviously usable as an adverb of time. Ditto "ben".
>*scratches head* What with -pu'DI', tugh, wej, and law'DI' leS, have all
>possibilities with "afterwards" been exhausted?
Dunno; -pu'DI' is mighty powerful. I'm not sure that -pa'be' is
ungrammatical (can't rovers go wherever they want?), nor am I sure it means
anything helpful.
~mark