tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 23 18:52:05 1995
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Re: About {pong}
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: About {pong}
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 21:52:03 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "HoD trI'Qal" at Jan 22, 95 4:58 pm
According to HoD trI'Qal:
[stuff about using the verb {pong}]
> 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
>
I could also see this as how to express that a warrior, seeking
to benefit his son in some symbolic way, named the country we
now know as {qeylIS}. I'm only going to this ridiculous length
to restate that what we have here is an unresolved problem that
we need Okrand to address.
He straightened out the {-ghach} problem and the comparatives
using pronouns. He can straighten this out, too. I'd rather
wait for him to do it rather than claim to have figured it out.
> --HoD trI'Qal Captain T'rkal ---------------------
> tlhwD lIy So' IKV Hidden Comet | [email protected]
charghwI'
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