tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 22 11:21:11 1996
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Re: Repetition
- From: [email protected] (MR PAUL J COFFEY)
- Subject: Re: Repetition
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:13:28 EST
ghItlh ghunchu'wI'
>ghItlh qeSmIv HarghwI':
>> toH valjaj latlhpu' law' DutulnISchu'
>
>chaq <'e'> DachelnIS 'ach DIch vIghajbe'. loQ mumISmoH <-jaj) <Du-> je.
>This would make much more sense to me if the prefix on the last word were
>changed to {Da-}. "He clearly needs to hope you" doesn't look right. If
>this is supposed to be "You have to hope that many others are clever," the
>use of {-jaj} seems very odd, and you need to use {'e'} as the object of
>{DatulnISchu'}, referring to the {val} sentence. ... I can't quite
accept {tul} as a verb of speaking.
The prefix on <tulnISchu'> should have been <wI->. As near as I can
figure it was a case of slip of the eye (or finger) when I consulted the
prefix chart. I am not yet familiar enough with the prefixes to do without
the chart. I quite agree that <tul> is not a verb of speaking; the lack of
the <'e'> was simply a screwup [jIDIv jIDIv jIDIvchu'] on my part. As
to the <-jaj>, I intended to express what an English speaker might have
realized as "We must hope that many others may in the future be intelligent
(enough to agree with you)." Please comment on my revised sentence:
valjaj latlhpu' law' 'e' wItulnISchu'
Thank you for your criticism. Your other points are also well taken.
I would like to clarify/discuss a couple of other things, yet have no time
right now for more than the above. I am about to launch into the tax
returns of the firm of which I am business manager, and that is going to
take up most of this week.
Qapla'
qeSmIv HarghwI'