tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 10 04:18:34 1994
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vay'mey vItlhob
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: vay'mey vItlhob
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 17:16:47 -0500
- In-Reply-To: mark's message of Thu, 10 Feb 94 12:22:11 EST <[email protected]>
>From: mark <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 12:22:11 EST
>ghItlh Marnen (jachqemwI'?):
>> choHlu'laHbe'qu'law'.
>Unfortunately, as has been batted around in here previously, lu'
>and laH can't go together. They're both Type 5, for no evident
>good reason except that that's the way it is. (Languages DO get
>perverse sometimes...) See TKD 4.2.5, para. 1. DoHa'. It makes
>such useful constructions as yours impossible and forces us to
>look for other ways to express the meaning. I rather like
> choHlaHbe'qu'law' nuv
Or maybe "choHlaHlaw' pagh'e'", to avoid confusion about whether you're
talking about a specific nuv...
~mark