tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 20 16:58:39 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:58:01 +1000
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ghItlhpu' De'vID:
>The difference in stress is a good point. Now, do we know
>how the following sentences are stressed?
><wej vIlegh> "I don't see him/her/them yet"
><wej vIlegh> "I see three (of them)"
>Can we infer anything from TKD or the tapes about where the
>stress falls on each of the above sentences?
Unfortunately, I don't own the tapes, so I can't make any judgements based
on those. But just going from the stress descriptions in TKD, I suspect that
these sentences would be true homophones, even suprasegmentally. Does {wej},
in either of its forms, appear on the tapes?
QeS lagh
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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