tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 08 20:37:29 1999
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Re: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:36:26 EDT
In a message dated 8/8/99 9:47:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:
>
> > 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
>
I said what I ment and I ment what I said. When I wrote the message it was
*this night* that I saw the movie and *this night* that I was afraid to go to
sleep.
quljIb