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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
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From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 16:05:28 EDT
In-Reply-To: <199402071538.KAA03905@startide.ctr.columbia.edu>; from "Mark E. S
houlson" at Feb 7, 94 10:38 am
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Mark E. Shoulson jay'?
=>What on Kronos is that prefix doing there? A prefix with {-wI'}???
=It's been mentioned here before. I don't know how widely-accepted it is at
=this point. So far, there has been less use of/call for it than I might
=have expected.
I'd just like to mention that, with the current crackdown on -ghach, -wI'
is proving quite useful. For example, vision (and this might be a bit
overreacting on my part) has changed from leghlaHghach to leghwI'laH,
the ability of a seer.
=I'm somewhat inclined to permit "-wI'" on prefixed verbs, but I'm not going
=to rule authoritatively at this point. There are some interesting things
=involved... "yaS ghojmoHwI'" is either a noun-noun "officer's teacher", or
=maybe it's a nominalization of "yaS ghojmoH"; "he/she/it teaches the
=officer".
Given the broad interpretation of noun-noun relations you yourself have
been espousing (and don't tell me you're reneging on that too!), this
ambiguity is perfectly reasonable. It's familiar enough to us in English.
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