tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 15 08:31:51 1998
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Re: SIS
In a message dated 98-06-15 09:22:46 EDT, charghwI' wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 22:54:39 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:
>> In a message dated 98-06-13 11:14:46 EDT, ter'eS wrote:
>>
>> >qaStaHvIS Hoch nungbogh Hogh SIS 'ej SISqa'.
>>
>> Putting Hoch before nungbogh Hogh implies that nungbogh Hogh works
together >>as
>> one compound noun, right? Interesting?
>Why do you consider the verb {nungbogh} to be a noun? Perhaps it
>is just your choice of terminology. Meanwhile, I read this as a
>rather odd sounding:
>"It rains while the week which preceeds everything happens and
>it rains repeatedly," or less likely, "It rains while everything
>which is preceeded by the week happens and it rains again."
>I see tereS using {nung} as a transitive verb with {Hogh} as
>subject and {Hoch} as object. {Hoch nungbogh Hogh} then becomes
>a relative clause. It does sound like tereS likely didn't intend
>this message to mean what it appears to mean, but I would not
>relate the error to anything I'd call a compound noun.
Oops, you're right. I didn't even see this possible interpretation until you
mentioned it. What I meant to say was "during all of last week". {nungbogh}
was supposed to just mean "last". Maybe I could use your coined word
{vebHa'} instead. The other problem, though, is that I now have doubts that
{Hoch} is the appropriate word with {Hogh}. {Hoch Hogh} I now think should
be understood as "every week". "All week" I now think should be {Hogh naQ}.
(Of course, now I have the problem of how to apply both {vebHa'} and {naQ}
to one noun!)
-- ter'eS