tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 15 20:50:56 2001
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Re: -vo'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: -vo'
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:51:51 -0800
Re: -vo' for verbs of perception:
Maybe it's because I'm studying ASL at the moment, but I don't find much of
a difference between
Hurvo' Qe'Daq jIjaH
and
Hurvo' Qe'Daq jIlegh
The action of the sentence - seeing - is in a direction away from the
outside, towards the restaurant. Yes, the action that makes sight possible
is really light travelling from the restaurant to the observer's eye, but
the race that makes that discovery before having established vocabulary
that deals with sight is uncommunicative indeed.
Question is: yotlhvo' vIlargh - Am I in the field, or is the source of the
odour? I think we have the same ambiguity in English.
Qov