tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 12 21:08:08 1997
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RE: lut tlhaQ
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: lut tlhaQ
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 04:56:55 UT
January 12, 1997 8:18 PM EST, jatlh Voragh:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Kenneth Traft wrote:
> |Actually in the Hallmark commerical <wov> was used as a noun.
>
> Qapqu' wov. po' 'oH jan Hov'e'.
> It even has working lights!
> Lit. "The light functions very well. The star device is skillful." I'm
> assuming that jan Hov (or janHov?) refers to the illuminated Christmas
> tree ornament itself.
Bah. I wouldn't put any faith in this "evidence." I sure hope that this
isn't the mysterious source of {po} as a noun too, is it? I mean, the "to be"
sentence is all wrong!
> wov is also a component in the compound noun maSwov "moonlight".
Complex noun, not compound noun. {wov} has not come close to being proven a
noun to me. Until it does, it's not a compound at all. A compound is a
string of two or more simple nouns pushed together.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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