tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 15 19:16:07 2001
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RE: laj (was Re: jaS bIpotlh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: laj (was Re: jaS bIpotlh
>
>
> ja'pu' Andrew <[email protected]>:
> >...lut Daj luDalu'bogh, lalDan paQDI'norghna' wavnISlu', vaj net qap.
>
> ja' charghwI':
> >"Thus, one insists that interesting stories which are be-boringed, true
> >religious teachings it [not they] must be divided."
> >
> >jIyajHa'ba'.
>
> charghwI', wa' mu' DalaDHa'law'. <luDalu'bogh> yIbuSqa'.
luDalu'bogh
lu - They - it, when used with {-lu'}, it implies an indefinite subject and
a plural object.
Dal - be boring.
-bogh - relative clause.
lut Daj luDalu'bogh
Interesting stories (plural) are the direct object of the stative verb
{Dal}. Unfortunately, stative verbs don't have direct objects. We do have
the canon example {quSvamDaq ba'lu''a'?} but in that example, there is no
direct object for the verb {ba'}. In this example, we do have {lut Daj} as
the direct object (and head noun) of {luDallu'bogh}. There's no way I can
interpret this to be grammatical. I'm not merely confused about what he is
trying to say. I think it is grammatically wrong. Perhaps he intended this
to be {Dalbogh lut Daj}. If he had said that, I'd be merely confused about
what he means, but I wouldn't see it as grammatically impossible to
interpret, as I do {lut Daj luDallu'bogh}.
If I'm still missing something here, please point it out.
None of this is to disrespect our Boy Wonder now grown to continue his
impressive talent. We all make mistakes. I make more than my share of them.
My whole reason for asking ghuyDo' wa' to hold back his propensity to write
everything in huge sentences is to make his fields of words less fertile for
this kind of gross grammatical error. In English, I often tend to write
sentences that are too long. I fight this. People like my writing better
when I keep each sentence shorter. Everything has an extreme. Balance is a
good thing. ghuyDo' wa' has pushed one edge of his balance for long enough
that he'd probably benefit from a little movement on the part of this
particular pendulum.
> (Do'Ha' ghu'
> Dubba'be'. mu'tlhegh naQ vIyajlaH jIH 'e' QaHbe'law' mu' lugh. ratlhbej
> Seng.)
ratlhbej jay'.
> Andrew, Shakespeare much lururchu' QInlIj. Qatlh mu'tlheghmey 'ej Doj.
> tInqu'mo' pablaw'taHvIS bIH vIHo'. 'ach bIDojtaHvIS 'ej vIHo'taHvIS,
> bIQumchu'be'qu'.
'ej rut pabbe'law' bIH.
> -- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
charghwI' 'utlh