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Re: targhmey

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: targhmey
• Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:35:28 -0500
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ja' Voragh:

> ghunchu'wI':
>
>> maj.  I'd suggest putting {-taH} on the pronoun/verb, to emphasize
>> that the location is a continuing thing rather than a simple fact of
>> being.  That seems to be the conventional thing to do when using
>> pronouns to indicate "be at a place".
>>
>
> More than conventional style, it seems to actually be a rule -  
> albeit one
> that's undocumented in either TKD or KGT.  EVERY pronoun-as-verb  
> example
> indicating "be at a place" has {-taH} on the pronoun.  AFAIK there  
> are no
> exceptions.

Must I remind you *again* of the counterexamples from TKD?

   nuqDaq 'oH Qe' QaQ'e'
   nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'

It's NOT a rule.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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