tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 15 07:24:02 1994
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Re: 2 questions
- From: [email protected] (Erich Schneider)
- Subject: Re: 2 questions
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 09:22:35 CDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> (message from Niall Hosking on Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:24:49 +0100 (BST))
Niall Hosking <[email protected]> asks:
>With:
>How do you say "with" in the sense "I hit him with a rock"?
There are a couple of ways that sort of work.
vIqIpta' nagh vIlo'bogh jIH. "I, who use a rock, hit him."
nagh vIlo'taHvIS, vIqIpta'. "While I used a rock, I hit him."
vIqIpmeH, nagh vIlo'ta'. "In order to hit him, I used a rock."
I prefer the first, because I think it places the emphasis on the
"hitting" while maintaining a stronger link between the hitting and
the rock than #2 does. Others on the list prefer #3 because it
indicates the causal link between rock and hitting more forcefully,
but I think it shifts the focus away from the hitting too much.
-QumpIn 'avrIn