tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 13 11:55:08 1999

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Re: Nautical Directions/Navigation



At 09:27 AM 12/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>If you do use ma- then you have to use -Daq, 
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>>Not so.  When useing "ghoS", the "Daq" suffix is not requiered.
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>If you have ma- on the ghoS you do! (if there is an object)
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>nImbuS wej wIghoS
>- we go to Nimbus III
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>nImbuS wejDaq wIghoS
>- we go to Nimbus III
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>nImbuS wejDaq maghoS
>- ON Nimbus III, we are going (somewhere)
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>nImbuS wej maghoS
>[This combination is not allowed]

I still can't shake the feeling that the implicit locative notion in "ghoS"
makes this acceptable.  It may be that after hearing this in STV I simply
accepted it as cannon and got used to the idea of this kind of
construction.  Does anyone else have an opinion they'd like to chime in here?

SuSvaj







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