tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 26 20:26:47 1999
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Re: Order of ordinals
In a message dated 3/26/99 7:02:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< I keep on not using constructions that parallel {QamvIS} and
{torvIS} even though they, too, came from MO himself.
peHruS
>>
maj. TKW p95 - "The grammatical construction is a bit aberrant; one would
expect QamtaHvIS and tortaHvIS. In proverbs, grammatical shortcuts are not
uncommon." Unless a proverb, one shouldn't try to circumvent grammar, and
even then, I'd avoid it if at all possible.
T'Lod