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Re: wa'Hu' wanI'

• From: trI'Qal <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: wa'Hu' wanI'
• Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 22:36:59 -0400 (EDT)

marqwmvo':

>charghwI'vo':
>     *    *    *
>
>> >               juHwIj Hopbe' "Splat House"
>"'Splat House' is not far from my home." I realize now that I should have
>said {juHwIjvo'}. I must have been sleepy or something.
>
>     *    *    *
>I don't think you need -vo' there.  Although English uses the
>preposition "from", there's no "action ... in a direction away
>from" the house (TKD p.28).  An object of Hop 'be remote, far'
>would most sensibly be the thing that the subject is far from, so
>the sentence as is looks fine.

Except, of course, that brings up the transitivity question again.  I think I 
prefer it with the -vo'.


--HoD trI'Qal
  tlhwD lIy So'

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