tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 12 19:42:22 1997
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Re: 3 loads of garbage...
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: 3 loads of garbage...
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:43:39 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 21:03:40 -0800 (PST) Neal Schermerhorn
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ghItlh Anthony Appleyard:
>
> >> Without making two sentences of it, is there any way agreed yet of saying
> >> e.g. "I had to take 3 loads of garbage out of the ship in which you
> fled."?
>
> ghItlh SuStel:
>
> >No there isn't.
>
> In this case it's possible. A little confusing, but possible.
>
> <wejlogh bIHaw'meH Dujvo' Dalo'ta'bogh veQ vIteqnIS>
Close, but I don't think it works:
Three times, from the in-order-that-you-flee ship, ... This is
where it falls apart. A noun with {-vo'} on it cannot act as
object of a verb. It is a locative. Locatives are locatives, not
objects. Since {Dujvo'} is a locative, it can't be object of
{Dalo'ta'bogh}, so {Dalo'ta'bogh} immediately becomes a headless
relative clause and the sentence turns to mush.
Besides, what exactly is a "load" of garbage? Enough to fill a
shuttlecraft? A trash bag? A pickup truck?
> Qermaq
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