tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 15 13:49:35 1997
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Re: KLBC: word explanations
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: word explanations
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:49:30 -0700 (PDT)
At 12:52 AM 9/15/97 -0700, Dawut wrote:
>waH
> try out, use (experimentally), taste food to see if it's prepared
>properly or to find out it you like it.
> (v) {from MSN}
>
>Is the text regarding food merely and example of the intended
>application of this verb, or does this verb exclusively relate to
>taste-testing?
The object can be food or something else being tried.
>'op
> some of (n?) {HolQeD v4n3p4 - S47}
>
>Can someone expand on this? I do not have the sited issue of HolQeD.
>(I only have the first volume of HolQeD.) Is my example correct?
>
>tlhutlhlIj 'op yInob.
>Give me _some of_ your drink.
>
>Would a counter-part to {'op} be {Hoch}?
>
>tlhutlhlIj Hoch yInob.
>Give me _all_ your drink.
'op is a cunterpart to Hoch. But they both go *befoere* the noun the modify.
Also {tlhutlh} is not a noun, and you've just said "give" {yInob} not "give
me" {HInob}.
'op HIqlIj HInob - give me some of your liquor
Hoch HIqlIj HInob - give me all of your liquor
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian