tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 17 18:13:57 1994
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Re: Interesting construction
- From: [email protected] (Nick Legend Nicholas)
- Subject: Re: Interesting construction
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 13:07:05 +1100 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Nov 17, 94 12:12:20 pm
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Mark E. Shoulson jay'?
=Hmm... Just had something interesting... I needed to find a way to say "The
=information which I remember reading". Came up with what's probably a
=pretty obvious casting, but I can't offhand recall seeing its like before.
=Nick, you might like this...
=De''e' vIlaD 'e' vIqawbogh...
Twilight zone stuff! Just yesterday, I was reading up on the syntax of Modern
Greek relative clauses, and in Greek, you can actually say:
i pliroforia pou thimame oti [ti] diabasa
the information which I remember that [optional: it] I read.
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Nick Nicholas. Melbourne University, Aus. [email protected]
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"Some of the English might say that the Irish orthography is very Irish.
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