tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 08 18:47:11 1999
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RE: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- From: "John M. Dlugosz" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 20:46:44 -0500
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> This is certainly true, but I'll just make a comment on style.
> >From the examples MO has given us, I think {ramvam} would more likely
> be rendered {DaHjaj ram} (as in pagh's last example). {ramvam} to
> me would be used for later references to a time already stated, eg.:
>
> wa'Hu' ram *Blair Witch Project* vIlegh, 'ej ramvam jIQongvIpbej.
> "I saw BWP last night, and that night was afraid to go to sleep."
>
> -- ter'eS
Hmm, but it says =this= night I was afraid to sleep (delayed reaction?).
Wouldn't you say in that example {ramvetlh} for "that (the one I was just
talking about) night" ?
IOW, I don't see how {ramvam} can mean anything other than "tonight", or
when two anteceedents are involved (this one and that one).
--John