tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 07 13:34:48 1999
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Re: And then...? And then...? (And then along came Jones...) - For MO
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:51:24 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>
>On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:41:30 -0500 Alan Anderson
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ja' ~mark:
>> >*ping* and an adverb for "finally"! Though so far only for finally in the
>> >sense of "it happened after a long expectation, after being considered
>> >late" and not "at the end of the story, when all is/was said and done."
>>
>> Right. We don't obviously have anything like ordinal adverbials, though
>> this would have been a good opportunity for having them explained to us
>> if they do exist. Not that I'm complaining! {rutlh} alone is enough of
>> an unexpected treat.
>
>Surely, there is some historical Ruth associated with wheels. I
>would have expected something like {vana'}, but I guess Okrand
>thought that would be too obvious.
Or {qatrIn} maybe...
Everyone get what I see in {tagha'}?
~mark