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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] -lI': intentional or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Wed Mar 1 02:43:36 2017
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:43:31 +0100
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Am 01.03.2017 um 00:40 schrieb DloraH:
> When I first read [ HIvchu'mo' Heghta' ], the first (and I guess only)
> thought that went through my mind was "He (intentionally) died because
> he did a suicide attack." It made sense to me, so I didn't think any
> further on it.
Thanks for confirming what I said. I didn't mean to argue that {Heghta'}
is ungrammatical, it just made no sense to me that somebody died
intentionally (except for commiting suicide).
In the above example, it is defined that {Suvchu'} means "fight til
death" but I think it's not implied that one /intentionally/ dies in
such a battle. It's not clear from KGT.
(I'm not any army person; I guess there are some soldiers here who will
confirm that fighting til death might be a possible situation, but do
you do that intentionally? Would the friends of a dead soldier say "He
did it; he's dead now"?)
--
Lieven L. Litaer
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