tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 03 20:23:07 1996
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Computer program (was Re: KBLC re: -mo')
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Computer program (was Re: KBLC re: -mo')
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:27:11 -0500
Dave Yeung writes:
>chay' tlhIngan HolDaq "computer program (n)" jatlhlu'?
>"ghun" 'oH'a'? pagh "ghunghach" 'oH'a'?
We don't know that {ghun} can be used as a noun, or what it might mean if
it could. {ghunghach} is not very good; Okrand tells us that putting the
suffix {-ghach} on a verb with no other suffixes is a "highly marked" usage
that, while it does get a meaning across, looks very strange. He gives the
word "collapsation" as an example. I would understand any use of {-ghach}
on {ghun} to refer to the *act* of programming, though, not the *result*.
A "program" is usually a "procedure" -- consider {mIw}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj