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Re: DCKL translation problems: {tlhogh}

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: DCKL translation problems: {tlhogh}
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:41:06 -0500
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From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>

> That's just it:  Okrand has never used {ngoS}, only Paramount.  His gloss
> {dissolve" is ambiguous.  I took it to be transitive, but you saw it as
> intransitive.  To me, the simplest solution is to go for the transitive
> meaning:
>
>    Hergh ngoS bIQ
>    water dissolves the medicine
>
> since the intransitive can easily be rendered by {-lu}:
>
>    bIQDaq Hergh ngoSlu'
>    the medicine dissolves in water
>
> Though, I suppose you could just as easily imagine {ngoS} to be
intransitive:
>
>    bIQDaq ngoS Hergh
>    the medicine dissolves in water
>
> and add the causative suffix {-moH} to make it a transitive:
>
>    Hergh ngoSmoH bIQ
>    water dissolves the medicine

I don't think either interpretation has any compelling evidence behind it.
Aside from the fact that the easier solution isn't necessarily the right
one, this word is easy to work either way.  Don't forget:

bIQmo' nogS Hergh
The medicine dissolves because of the water.

SuStel
Stardate 4062.7

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