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Re: De'wI' malja'

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: De'wI' malja'
• Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:23:38 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

ja' SIHwI':
>mughtaHghachwIjvaD lI' mu'meylIj!

Hmm -- why go to the trouble of turning a perfectly good verb into a
noun when you're going to put the suffix {-vaD} on it?  It seems so
much simpler to leave it as a verb and use the suffix {-meH} instead:

jImugh[taH]meH lI' mu'meylIj.

{-ghach} has its uses; I've used it a couple of times recently myself.
I even put it on a bare verb -- but I've got enough history here that
everyone ought to have understood that I did it intentionally for the
"quoted" effect. ;-)  Using it where other tools work just as well or
better, though, always seems odd to me.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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