tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 25 13:15:11 2002
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Re: Headers. Yet again.
> vaj qachuH: SuStel's reading of TKD (if I understand it at all) allows
> nouns to take Type 5 suffixes wherever they occur in a sentence, provided
> the results are "meaningful."
charghwI' (if I understand him correctly) isn't saying that it's not allowed.
He's merely saying that through observation we simply do not see it happening.
If MO someday does somehow make a "meaningful" sentence with a type 5 (except -
'e') on a subject or object, then fine. If it's allowed then we can easily
say "...the ship in which I fled".
> >> vangDI' ghot, quvmoH tuqDajvaD.
>
> > bIvbej. moH je. "When a person acts, for his family honors him."
>
> jaS vImugh 'e' vImaS: "When a person acts, what brings honor is the
> fact that he does it for his house."
That certainly isn't what came into mind. I do understand what you're trying
to say; if MO someday says this construction works and this is how it's
translated, fine, I'll accept it. Till then, observation says "this doesn't
happen; so far we've seen type 5 only in the header".
Again, he's not saying it can't, just that it hasn't.
DloraH