tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 18 09:11:01 1994
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Re: KLBC: prepositional phrases
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: prepositional phrases
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 94 12:10:57 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Sep 16, 94 4:11 pm
According to Mark E. Shoulson:
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> >From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
> >Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 17:20:25 EDT
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> >What about botlh? "Center, middle." Wouldn't that do for
> >"inside"?
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> Probably not very well. It might carry things across okay,okay in some
> contexts, but somehow saying "The paperclips are in the middle of the
> spaceship" when in fact they are in a peripheral room doesn't seem ideal.
> Then again, I could se idiom accepting botlh for this purpose.
That one is easily recast to {mavjop'e' ngaS Duj}. More
naturally, I imagine a dialog:
nuqDaq mavjop?
ngaS Duj.
Do you have needs for "inside" that are not covered by either
{ngaS} or {botlh}?
> ~~mark
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