tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 08 21:23:31 1997
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Re: plans
- From: "WATT FAMILY" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: plans
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:21:27 +1000
don't send this to [email protected]
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> From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: plans
> Date: Thursday, 6 November 1997 23:56
>
> [email protected] on behalf of David Crowell wrote:
> [other examples cut]
> > Huch nge'bogh ghot Sovbe' Human 'ach Huch nge' 'Iv 'e' Sov Human.
> > Paris doesn't know the one who took the money but Paris knows who took
> > the money.
>
> Is there a difference in *meaning* between these two sentences? I cannot
> detect any, beyond the possible number of theives in each one.
>
> It looks to me like in the second part in English, "Paris knows who took
the
> money," "who" is a shortened version of "the person who." I don't think
this
> is a question as object sentence, even in English. It's not "Paris knows
(who
> took the money)," it's "Paris knows [the person (who took the money)]."
>
> SuStel
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