tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 30 13:25:46 1999
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Re: Order of ordinals
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Order of ordinals
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 03:39:15 EST
In a message dated 3/26/1999 9:33:32 PM US Mountain 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.
>>
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Good, but the real meat of the discussion, you have left out. It was whether
to accept {wa'DIch} as an adverbial meaning "first" at the beginning of a
sentence while we have only one such example. Please focus on this issue,
too.
peHruS