tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 04 21:29:21 2005
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Re: More on Ray Charles
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: More on Ray Charles
- Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:29:04 +1000
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ja' juDmoS:
>matay' 'e' Hoch ram vInajtaH 'e' DaSovbe'
>"You don't know that I dream each night that we are together."
>Well? whattaya think? Does that work?
I won't comment on the semantics, since ghunchu'wI' has done that already.
There is an error here, though: remember that {-taH} is an aspect (Type 7)
suffix, and therefore it cannot appear on a verb that has {'e'} as its
object. *{'e' Hoch ram vInajtaH} is ungrammatical; {'e' Hoch ram vInaj} is
the correct way of saying this.
jang ghunchu'wI':
>DoS puSlaH <naj> 'e' wISovbe'. chaq bIv <vInaj>. chaq pab. maSovbe'.
>{naj} is defined for us as "dream", not "dream about". I will understand
>what is intended when someone uses it with an object, but absent canon
>support I will not do it myself.
Well put. We don't know that {naj} can sensibly take an object - although
that said, I think {matay' 'e' vInaj} is more likely to be grammatical than
{qanaj}, since we've used other verbs in that way. {chup} and {Har} spring
to mind.
Savan,
QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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