tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 07 11:46:06 1996
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RE: KBLC: <ghor>
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KBLC: <ghor>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 16:42:52 UT
December 06, 1996 1:09 PM, jatlh Andrew 'Ska' Netherton:
> > What does the sentence {ghor taj} mean? Does it mean that the knife
causes
> > something to be made into pieces, or does it mean that the knife itself
> > becomes several pieces?
>
> Notwithstanding what Okrand says in TKD, can't we tell just by the
> placement of <taj> as the subject and not the object? Were the knife to
> make itself break, wouldn't it become <taj ghor 'oH>?
My point is that before TKW, if I told you {ghor taj}, you wouldn't know if I
had just said "The knife cuts it up," or "The knife falls apart." These are
extremely different interpretations.
> BTW, what *would* <ghor taj> mean? I'm still not 100% sure.
{ghor taj} means "The knife breaks it," as in "The knife chops it up into
little pieces" (or whatever). This is the transitive interpretation of
"break." Your example of {taj ghor 'oH} above means "It breaks the knife."
pIpyuS yIghor!
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