tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 17:24:59 1995

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Re: About {pong}




On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:

> > On Sat, 21 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:
> > > recipient of the sentence (Just as if I said "I give the god a bone"... 

> > hrm.... somehow i doubt that was intentional, but damned i wish it was!!!

> I assure you, it was not. Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.

'ach κκΗ
CQ
> 
> 
> > > the recipient is still the dog, right?).  Okay, so then, if -vaD goes on 
> > > the intended recipient, and the intended recipient is still the dog... 
> > > why can't I say:
> > > 
> > > 	targhvaD "Max" wIpong
> > > 
> > > Comments?  Linguists?  (Nick?  ~mark?)
> > > 
> > > (I'm sure I left a few loopholes a mile wide in that logic... let's see 
> > > 'em guys!)
> > 
> > looks good to me... personally i find it more a matter of style than 
> > anything else.  whether i say <naQ'avwI' mupong tlhInganpu'> or 
> > <jIHvaD *Silauren* lupong *elf*pu'> seems to me to amount to the same 
> > thing:  a construction that should make sense to nearly any <tlhIngan 
> > jatlhwI'>, telling them that certain people know me by certain names.  
> > *shrug*
> 
> 
> The only problem with charghwI's recasting is when the both the subject 
> and the object need to be explicity stated, as well as the name.  For 
> example, how would you say, "The warrior named his son qeylIS"?  Using 
> charghwI's method, you can't.  This way, you can:
> 
> 	puqloDDajvaD qeylIS pongta' SuvwI'
> 
> See what I mean?
> 
> 
> --tQ
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> HaghtaHbogh tlhIngan yIvoqQo'!  toH, qatlh reH HaghtaH HoD Qanqor...?
> 
> --HoD trI'Qal		Captain T'rkal		---------------------
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> 
> 

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