tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 13 16:28:57 1993
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Re: Where am I?
- From: [email protected] (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common folk)
- Subject: Re: Where am I?
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 18:28:06 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Randall Holmes" at Aug 31, 93 7:33 pm
Randall Holmes says:
:
:
: naDev vISovbe'
:
: does not say to me "I do not know this place", but "I do not know
: (something unspecified) at this place". A better translation might be
: "I don't know it here" or "I am ignorant here". The crucial point is
: that naDev is clearly locative; it is not an object (even if one does
: accept confusion of different sorts of objects)!
I'm not sure about this: >naDev< _is_ a noun (even though it doesn't take
>-Daq<), and it seems to me that "I do not know ???" would be >jiSovbe'<, not
>viSovbe'< -- it's my understanding that the "no-object" series is used
whenever the object is not clearly understood. (could be totally wrong...)
: --Randall Holmes mughlaw'wI'
Qapla' Qichqengwi'vo'.
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