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Re: De'wI' malja'

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• Subject: Re: De'wI' malja'
• Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:16:20 EST

lab ghunchu'wI':

>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.

Thanks.  Actually, I thought of this after I already sent it, which I seem
to do a lot!  I read, and reread, then send the message.  When I get it back,
I see something else I could have done better!

There is a PA Dutch saying that goes something like this:

jImoDtaHvIS ghIgh puS vIrIn!

("the faster I go, the behinder I get")

SIHwI'

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