[83999] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Missing question words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Thu Jan 17 17:18:33 2008
In-Reply-To: <3E4E5999-0FEB-4AE8-A292-1E73AB97AA17@embarqmail.com>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:15:51 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jan 17, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Doq wrote:
> My point is
> that I don't understand how {naDev} can be used without it being
> locative any more than I could understand {jIHDaq} being used without
> it being locative, because {naDev} really is just a synonym for
> {jIHDaq}.
"Really"?
Its definition says it means "here", and TKD explains it as meaning
something like "hereabouts". I don't see anything that makes it
distinctly personal. I can easily toss off a sentence where {naDev}
and {jIHDaq} give quite different results:
jImejDI', naDev nagh yIpummoH.
jImejDI', jIHDaq nagh yIpummoH.
I also don't see anything wrong with a sentence such as this:
Hurgh naDev.
If {naDev} is a synonym for anything, I suggest it would be {Daqvam}.
-- ghunchu'wI'
