tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 19 10:58:08 1996
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Re: KLBC: Quotes
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Quotes
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:58:06 CST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:04:25 PST." <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>
> It's like the difference between "my killer" and "the me-killer".
>
> muHoHwI' "me-killer"
> HoHwI'wI' "my killer"
>
> The first one emphasizes the individual, the second the action.
>
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this (even with the
help of the other examples I snipped). To me the difference is
that a <verb>wI'wI' can be somenone who verbs _for_ me. Of course
this can only happen with transitive verbs. QongwI'wI' can only
do it _for_ me (whatever that means), right? Can't be someone
who sleeps me... Thus _if_ muHoHwI' is a legal word, it is more
precise than HoHwI'wI'
(as for the individual vs. action: to me, muHoH and HoH are
different actions, in that I take the prefix of HoH to be of
the 'no object' type, i.e. a HoHwI' is someone who kills in
general, while a muHoHwI' would be just someone who kills _me_,
not necessarily other people)
HomDoq