tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 02 11:07:29 2001
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RE: KLBC: Grammer questions
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Grammer questions
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:05:07 -0700
Of the sentence:
>"Arizona" DuSaQ'a'Daq vIjaHlI'.
Qov said:
> It looks like taD missed a prefix error there. there's no object of jaH in
> that sentence, so the prefix on jaH should have been jI-. I imagine he was
> distracted by the too-literal transation of "go to school," and missed the
> vI-.
taD said:
> In HolQeD Volume 7, #4, the interview with Marc Okrand clarifies the word
> {jaH} on page 8.
> [...]
> You can also change the prefix, so that the location is the object of the
> verb {jaH}. In this case, the object is what you are going to:
> {tera' vIjaH} "I go to Earth."
> We can also say {tera'Daq vIjaH} to mean "I go to Earth".
I want to clarify for anyone paying attention that taD is RIGHT and Qov is
WRONG. We're not fighting, and it's not ambguous. I just didn't know
something. Thank you, taD, and sorry for believing you could make such a
mistake. ;)
SKI: DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'
Qov