tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 30 10:24:15 1996
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Re: Instruments
- From: Jose Mijares <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Instruments
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 13:26:49 -0400
>Subject: Re: Instruments
>Sent: 7/29/96 5:18 PM
>Received: 7/30/96 1:24 PM
>From: Jeremy Cowan, [email protected]
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: Multiple recipients of list, [email protected]
>
>On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
>> Someone a few days ago (sorry, I forget who) said that he thought that
(if
>X
>> is a verb) {X-wI'} is the agent only, not the instrument also as we have
been
>> thinking. TKD says that an {X-wI'} is "(a) one who is X [presumably if X is
>an
>> adjective-verb], (b) one who does X, (c) thing which does X".
>..
>> In TKD I have found a quantity of {X-wI'} nouns where the verb {X} is
>listed
>> also, including some tools for X-ing with:-
>
>numerous examples followed, which I have narrowed down to:
>
>> HotlhwI' N scanner
>> nejwI' N probe
>
>I think I see your confusion. You seem to be translating {XwI'} as
>"thing used for Xing". I like that; and I think it would be
>intriguing if the language did that. Sadly, however, that is not the
>case. No matter how much fun that would be, we are told very specifically
>that {-wI'} means "one who does, thing which does". Yes it is true
>that a HotlhwI' is a "thing used for scanning", but that is ONLY
>because it's very convenient to use a "thing which scans" when scanning.
>
>bIyaj'a'
>
>janSIy
>
Ok, [email protected] and [email protected] are the same
persons, the mailer change autamtily the name, please unsuscribe me of
this list.
thank
Jose Mijares
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