tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 22 08:54:08 1997
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RE: vegh
- From: Chet Braun <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: vegh
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 08:52:27 -0700
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>>I'm puzzled by this last example: does the woman actually "touch" the
forest
>>as she walks through it?
>I don't think that whether or not the woman touches the trees is the
issue.
> the issue is whether or not the object that the woman is going through is
>meant to be gone through. If wind blows through a window, it is not
>damageing the window, and that is in fact part of what the window is fore.
>On the other hand, a bullet penetrating a heart does not fit "vegh"
because
>the bullet must tear it's own path, and more than likely, the heart would
>rather not be penetrated. As for a woman walking through a forest, my
>impression is that "vergh" can be used here, as the woman is not damageing
>the forest. Particularly if there is some kind of pre-existing path which
>she is following. On the other hand, if it is a bulldozer which is
>going through the forest, perhapse clearing trees for a new road, then
>"vegh" would not apply.
>SuSvaj
I don't know, I was pretty sure that he identified "going through a forest"
as another of the three (four if you include "shit through a goose")
"throughs". [vegh] seemed to only apply to non-destructively going through
an opening. I'd classify "a ship through space" as the same "through" as
"through the forest", not [vegh]. Then again, I was a little to busy video
taping to be sure about this.
HetaQ