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Re: Confusion and unconditional surrender (was: vocabulary..)



On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Alan Anderson wrote:

> vanya writes:
> >*slipper*meywIj mojpu' no'lI' SurghDu'  ;P
> >
> I like it!  Though I think it's not quite an insult.  It's more of a taunt.
> If you want to emphasize an "I did it" meaning, you can say something like
> {waqHom moj no'lI' SurghDu' 'e' vIqaSmoHta'}.  I've taken the liberty of
> using the word {waqHom} here; I hope it fits what you want it to mean.

Um, excpet for that pesky TKD 6.2.5, "In complex sentences of this type 
[sentence as object], the second verb never takes an aspect suffix 
(section 4.2.7)".  Aspect needs to come from the verb in the sentence 
which is the object of /qaS/.

> -- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

--Holtej


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