tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 21 04:47:39 1994
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KLBC: prepositional phrases
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: KLBC: prepositional phrases
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 23:58:16 -0500
... and then uucp screamed "KLBC: prepositional phrases" to Bill Willmerdinger
in a fit of rage!
uu> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <ur-valhalla!cs.columbia.edu!shoulson>
>charghwI', add a way of negating a noun to your not-so-short list!
uu> Negating a *noun*? Eww. There's very little that can be said about
uu> negated nouns, leastways not in general. What's the negation of
uu> "book"? At best, a "non-book"; i.e. anything that isn't a book. Which
DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'. Perhaps I was a bit injudicious in my
choice of wording, but a construction like "non-" was what I was thinking
about. After all, we do a similar thing with {-Ha'} to verbs.
uu> How do you negate a noun in English?
Well.. probably non-grammatically. Not being a linguist, I'm kinda the wrong
one to ask.
uu> A word for"inside" is actually already on my own list,
Nice to know.
uu> A few other directional/positional words would also be helpful,
uu> I imagine.
"through" is one I'd like to see.
Qob
... DuHoH 'e' nIDchugh 'oH vaj SopmeH ghaytan QaQ 'oH