tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 26 05:03:25 1997
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Re: KLBC: The first time, Grammar check
>Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:45:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>ja' peHruS:
>>{tInchoHtaH} means "continues to
>>change to getting bigger," i.e., "swells."
>
>If {tIn} meant "be bigger" then I might agree, but it just means "be big"
>and I think {tInchoHtaH} sounds klunky. {tIntaH} makes plenty of sense.
{tIntaH} just means "it's continuously big." The -choH makes sense here:
its bigness is changing in quality, presumably becoming more so. {tInchoH}
is pretty clear for "it gets big, it becomes large," and that process may
be expressed as an imperfective. {tInchoHtaH} is quite good for "it
is/was/will be swelling." Now, I'm not sure we need the imperfective
either, but if we do, this word makes sense.
~mark