tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 23 21:53:51 2003
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Re: Grammar Question
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
> It also *may* call into question whether or not it's sensible to
> "have" a forehead. "Have" is a notoriously polysemous word in English
> (you "have" a book, a test in Biology on Thursday, and a cold in three
> very different ways, and that's just the first few that came to
> mind). {ghaj} is given as "have, possess", leading me to think it
> leans closer to the "possession" meaning of "have" than others. One
> does not "possess" one's forehead (you might possess another one,
> though, say mounted on your wall).
You know, just after mailing the last letter, I realized that there's
probably canon for {ghaj} and body parts. Isn't there something about
22 ribs, an expression meaning "not quite all there"? I'm too lazy to
look it up; one of you canon-jockeys out there can find it faster.
I don't think this actually changes what I was saying; I still think
it's cleaner to use {tIn ghIchwIj} than {ghIch tIn vIghaj}.
~mark