tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 05 03:52:09 1994
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Re: sayings
- From: HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: sayings
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 15:48:23 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "William H. Martin" at Aug 1, 94 09:36:14 am
>
>
> According to HoD trI'Qal:
> ...
>
> > HeghmeH jaj QaQ 'oH DaHjaj'e'!
> >
> > How's zat?
> >
> > --tQ
>
> While I see this all the time, I always feel a little
> uncomfortable about the way people leave off any verbal prefix
> whenever they use {-meH}. I read this as "In order that
> he/she/it dies or they die, today is a good day." If the
> sentiment were that it is a good day for ME to die, I'd prefer:
>
> jIHeghmeH jaj QaQ 'oH DaHjaj'e'!
>
> If it is considered to be a threat:
>
> bIHeghmeH jaj QaQ 'oH DaHjaj'e'!
>
> If it is merely waxing philosophical and it doesn't matter WHO
> dies, then:
>
> HeghmeH jay' jaj QaQ 'oH DaHjaj'e'!
Thqank you for taking me to task on my own beliefs. However, I recall
that, while I was the Beginner's Grammarian, *someone* (Qanqor?) took
me to task because I also said there had had to be a prefix. I don't
remember what he wuoted as an example; I think it was from one of the tapes.
I sat corrected.
And it is <vay'>, not <jay'>. {{:)
> charghwI'
>
>
--tQ
--
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