tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 16 13:36:13 2002
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Re: to' nech, 047: {paghDaq yIghurchoHlI'}
At 12:38 2002-04-16 -0400, David Trimboli wrote:
>From: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>
> > K: paghDaq yIghurchoHlI'.
> > Gloss: At zero, start increasing.
> > Eno/Schmidt: From nothing to more than nothing
>I don't usually like to combine Type 3 and Type 7 suffixes like this,
>particularly the "continuous" ones.[...]
The shade of meaning I was aiming for with the vs7 {lI'} was the part about
that action having an endpoint (which a {taH} wouldn't express). I guess
the implication I'm after is "and you'll know when to stop".
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Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/