tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 21 10:30:08 2000
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RE: Daj (2)
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Daj (2)
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:29:23 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Daj (2)
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:05:46 -0400 (EDT)
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> > > Qov:
> > > > bu'vaD mIw DajchoHmoHlI' Suy - "The merchant is interesting the
> > > > sergeant in a helmet."
> De'vID:
> > > nuqjatlh? /mIw/ is obviously a typo for /mIvDaq/.
> Qov:
> > reH Suvrup SuvwI''a'. mIw is a typo for mIv. If it were intended to be
> > mIvDaq, we'd be looking at a cat-in-the-hat construction.
> HIvqa' veqlargh! cha' nuHIvchu'pu' veqlargh. I misread
> your "sergeant in a helmet" for "sergeant wearing a
> helmet". Now I see that that would be an English-ism.
not Qaghvam chenmoH tlhIngan Hol. puj DIvI' Hol.
> What's the "cat-in-the-hat" construction? I've heard of
> it before, but I'm not clear what it is.
reH DIp tlhejDI' mojaq <<-Daq>> wot Del DIpvam. not latlh
DIp Del DIpvam. vaj <<mIvDaq vIghro' ngu'lu'>> DanuDDI',
ngu'taHghach Daq 'ang <<mIvDaq>>. not vIghro' Daq 'ang.
> (Is this also called the "shuttle-craft in which she
> fled" problem?)
ghobe'. *relative clause* vuS qel chovnatlhvetlh. pImchu'.
> > Had I meant that the merchant was eliciting a helmet-wearing
> > sergeant's interest in herself, the merchant, I would have written:
> > mIv tuQbogh bu'vaD Daj'eghchoHmoHlI' Suy
> > "The merchant was making herself interesting, for the sake of the sergeant
> > who wore a helmet."
> Actually I thought you might have been going for "The
> merchant is interesting the helmet-wearing-sergeant (in
> some unspecified item, say a knife)".
ghobe'.
vuS ghajqu' *relative clause*. Dareychugh, ghor. napnIS
Hoch mu'tlhegh. QatlhnISchugh qechmeylIj, vaj mu'tlheghmey
yIchenmoH. qechmey law' qenglaHbe' wa' mu'tlhegh.
> i.e. /mIv tuQbogh bu'vaD (taj) DajchoHmoHlI' Suy/
> But I see now that I was just thoroughly confused. {{=/
maj Daghojchu'lI'.
> --
> De'vID