tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 04 18:06:19 1996
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Re: jaH
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: jaH
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:06:34 -0500
I've been avoiding getting vocal in this discussion, but I have to jump
in here.
Nick writes:
>...We have been imbuing Okrand
>with foresight in including prepositions in the definitions, but there's a
>very simple reason why he wouldn't say 'go to', but 'go': 'to' is the default
>preposition built into 'go' in English. 'To go' means 'to go to', by default.
No, Nick, it doesn't. When used without a preposition, "go" simply means
the opposite of "stop". There's no "default"; nothing is "built into" it.
Because there indeed is a valid meaning of "go" by itself, *I* really don't
think that the word {jaH} should be interpreted as including the locative
notion. The explanation of the verb {ghoS} further convinces me that if
Okrand had intended {jaH} to be able to mean "go to", he'd have said so.
-- ghunchu'wI'