tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 01 10:15:36 1997
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RE: Hol vIlo' (was Re: Holna' wIlo'bejtaH)
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Hol vIlo' (was Re: Holna' wIlo'bejtaH)
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 17:54:53 UT
jatlh voqHa'wI':
> Alan Anderson wrote:
> >> The suffering I speak of comes when someone proclaims
> >> that, for example, *{maj ram} is grammatically correct usage, or that
>
> Then, Joel Peter Anderson wrote:
> > "maj ram" isn't 'grammatical', it is just common usage. Like "good
> > night" (What does that mean?).]
>
> Wait a second, it does depend how you use it. You could be saying that "it
is
> a good night", in which case it would be perfectly correct, qar'a'?
No. {maj} is not a verb, it is an exclamation. It expresses satisfaction,
nothing more.
To literally say that the night is good, you'd say
QaQ ram
The night is good.
whatever you meant by that. But this isn't "goodnight" by a long shot.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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