Re: Hat tuj

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@cs.columbia.edu>]

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>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:03:37 -0700
>From: Agneau Belanyek <agneau@tcp.co.uk>

>je tujqu' naDev (Southampton, England)

"naDev tujqu' je."  Erm, actually, maybe not, using "naDev" as the
subject.  That's weird.  Um.  I can't answer.

>HablI'wIj nuq? (modem?)

Hee.  Hinterlands dialect?  Okrand uses this structure as an example of
hinterlands dialect as opposed to more formal "HablI' 'oH nuq'e'" or "nuq
'oH HablI''e'?"

>"Afrika" Daq jibogh. 'e'moH muD tuj viparHa' 'e' Qub ghotpu'.

"'e'moH"?  You can't put a verb-suffix on 'e', a pronoun.  IMO, you can't
put *ANY* suffix on "'e'".  Maybe "meqvammo'".  Should be luQub (or
luHar).  Or even cooler, "net Har".

>munuQ 'oH.  tujviS muD, jiQaplaHbe'. jituQHa'moHchu' je

"tujtaHvIS."  In general, in my mind, there IS NO SUCH SUFFIX as -vIS.
There is no -vIS, there is only zool... er, that is, only -taHvIS.  OK,
that's not 100% so, since you can have -Qo' and -neS intervening, but it's
almost always true. 

I'm not sure how tuQ and tuQmoH work... I presume it should be
"jItuQHa''eghmoH".

>janwi' SuSHom munob bIng jiQong.

jIyajchu'be'.

~mark

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