tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 19 23:30:24 1996
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Re: cha'logh jImeQ
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- Subject: Re: cha'logh jImeQ
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:36:03 -0500
qaSDI' Hovjaj 96047.5 ghItlh HomDoq:
>However, if I (personally) wanted to express "still"
>I'd use "not yet stopped", e.g. wej SISbe'choH or - if
>I wanted to stress the ongoing aspect of the action -
>wej SISbe'choHtaH. (ah - is it only me or does this really
>need a tiny little bit of brain .. tilting? hmm .. it's
>probably the wej that needed the -taH, so maybe it doesn't
>work after all..)
maj. This is what I was looking for when I asked about "still." Although I
don't think you need to get so convoluted about it: {wej SIStaH 'e' mev}.
Some people may get twisted up over the placement of wej in the sentence,
but "not yet stopped" is exactly the sort of idea I was looking for.
SuStel
Hovjaj 96049.2