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Re: nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?

Alan Anderson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

ja' Voragh:

>> ...The suffix is
>> absent when the situation is more permanent: {puqpu' chaH
>> qama'pu''e'} "The prisoners are children."
>
> I would have said their status is temporary:  they weren't and  
> won't always be prisoners.

That would be a valid point if the sentence were the other way  
around: {qama'pu' chaH[taH] puqpu''e'} "The children are prisoners."   
As it is, though, it's referring not to the state of being a prisoner  
but the state of being a child.  (Yes, children mature, but that's  
not under the control of the jailer.)

-- ghunchu'wI'

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