tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 16 05:59:14 1995
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Re: Q
"William H. Martin" <[email protected]> writes:
\ According to Mark E. Shoulson:
\ >
\ > ... I don't like pIqaD all that much.
\ >
\ > ~mark
\
\ pIqaD qaq law' *Kirk* qaq puS.
\
\ charghwI'
jIQochbe'. 'ach Dochvam vItlhobnIS:
``The pIqaD is more preferable than Kirk''? Hmmm. The English gloss,
at least, is patently redundant. Do we have any canon evidence of 'qaq' being
used this way? The definition in TKD ("be preferable") seems inherently
comparative, not requiring the law'/puS construction. There's no
indication of how to express the thing to which the subject is preferable,
but it seems a logical role to be filled by the object: {pIqaD qaq *Kirk*}.
cha' DeQwIj.
-marqoS
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