tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 09 23:13:12 1997
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Re: KLBC: nominalizing a verb with object
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: nominalizing a verb with object
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:05:03 -0700 (PDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Trimboli" at Jun 9, 97 10:53:37 pm
David Trimboli wrote:
> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> > I can't derive
> > some-
> > thing like {mI'QeDwI' jIH} since {mI'QeD} is a noun. Have I got to say
> > something
> > like {mI'QeD vIHaD}, which could mean I'm a student instead of a searcher?
>
> Well, you could say {mI'QeD ghojmoHwI' jIH} "I am a number-science teacher."
> But you wouldn't want to say {mI'QeD jIH}, because this means "I am
> mathematics."
>
> Another possibility: {mI'QeD tej jIH}.
Or {mI'tej}?
wIvqu', law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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