[83909] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Specifying distance traveled (was Art of War Chp. 2 (section 1/3))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DloraH)
Thu Jan 10 02:25:16 2008
From: "DloraH" <seruq@bellsouth.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:18:56 -0600
In-Reply-To: <E4C9AF5E-7B86-449F-A09B-98B1A1A51B95@embarqmail.com>
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In "I travelled 1000 miles to the First City", the distance travelled might not be the topic;
putting "1000 miles" with -'e' at the beginning wouldn't work if the topic was the fact that I went
to the First City, and oh, by the way it was 1000 miles away.
While reading this thread I was getting ready to send a suggestion similar to ter'eS ...
> {jIleng. cha' SaD qelI'qam 'aD HewIj.}
>
> No reason why you have to try to cram all the
> information into a single sentence.
>
> -- ter'eS
Except I was going to leave the subject [chuq].
jIleng. cha' SaD qelI'qam 'ab chuq.
It reminds me of how one doesn't put a quote with words like "answer". One has to break it into two
sentences.
jIjang. jIjatlh ...
DloraH
