tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 21 04:19:40 1997
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Re: maHagh tlhInganpu' (was:Klingon words for "subject"...)
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maHagh tlhInganpu' (was:Klingon words for "subject"...)
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:21:40 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) Marian Schwartz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ghItlh charghwI'
> >Krankor thought it meant you could use whole
> >sentences compacted into the two sides of comparative
> >structures and was greatly disappointed to be told otherwise.
>
> Excuse me? I thought he opposed that. I look at the column starting on
> page 35 of From the Grammarian's Desk (FGD?) and it looks like he opposed
> this sort of thing.
Initially, this seems true enough.
> Or do you mean changing an entire sentence into a noun phrase (?) with
> {-ghach}? That did seem rather shaky to me.
That's exactly what I meant. He recanted this idea beginning
page 73.
> Qapla'
> qoror
charghwI'