[83878] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Specifying distance traveled (was Art of War Chp. 2 (section 1/3))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Tue Jan 8 11:18:04 2008
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <f5b478ef0801072131u5fe56a78hab2bf135daa73353@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:16:52 -0500
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
If you are unsure it could work as a direct object, certainly it could
work as a topic, right? As for a thousand miles, they must have
provisions in order to travel. This should be grammatically correct
regardless of whether or not distance can be used as a direct object
of {leng}.
It's a dodge, but sometimes, dodging is good strategy.
Doq
On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:31 AM, qa'vaj wrote:
> Another "The Art of War"-related sentence question. In the following
> snippit:
> wa'SaD qelI'qam [A] chuq lenglaHmeH negh, Soj poQlu
> And provisions to carry them a thousand miles.
>
> It looks like {wa'SaD qelI'qam chuq} is the direct object of
> {leng}? Can
> the distance traveled be stated this way? I recall that specifying
> the
> distance traveled was a tricky problem, but if {leng} can take
> distance as a
> D.O., it isn't tricky any more. (jIyIt. wa' qelI'qam chuq vIleng).
>
> --
> qa'vaj
> qo'lIj DachenmoHtaH
>
>
>
