tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 22 20:39:16 1996
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Re: Repetition
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Repetition
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:40:44 -0500
qeSmIv HarghwI' writes:
> ghom tIn Da'oSjaj 'e' vItulpu' {{;-]
Oops -- you've violated TKD ordinance 6.2.5/c! On page 66, we learn
that when dealing with the sentence-as-object construction, the second
sentence never takes an aspect (type 7) suffix. You'll have to remove
that {-pu'} from {vItul} in order to follow the rules; to still imply
the perfective, you can move it to the verb in the first sentence.
I really don't think that {-jaj} works the way you want it to. All
by itself, it indicates a desire, wish, or hope for something to be
true; saying {...-jaj 'e' vItul} is redundant at best, and I will go
so far as to argue that it's seriously bizarre. What do you really
mean to say? My interpretation is "I hoped that may you represent a
large group," which doesn't parse well.
Are you perhaps trying to use {-jaj} as "might", as in "I hoped that
you might represent a large group"? I hope not -- that's *not* what
{-jaj} means. For "might" we have {chaq}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj