[84485] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Wed Apr 23 00:04:47 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:05:03 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 4/22/2008 22:50:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
david@trimboli.name writes:
> MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 4/22/2008 21:44:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > Sangqar@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> >> Second, I have to disagree with you about the pronunciation of compound
> >> words. To stick with the same English example, there is a very real
> >> difference between the pronunciations of "blackbird" and "black bird".
> >> Even when (native speaker) listeners aren't consciously paying attention
> >> to the pause, they CAN tell the difference. The blank space very much
> >> DOES change the way you say it. (At least, it does when both versions
> >> exist. "Ice cream" is spelled as two separate words but pronounced as
> >> though it were a single word - but no word spelled "icecream" exists.)
> >>
> >
> > You're using English for your example, whish is irrelevant in this context
> to
> > Klingon.
>
> Can you demonstrate that the same does not occur in Klingon? If not, it
> MIGHT work like that. In that case, one cannot definitively declare that
> there is no difference between compound nouns and genitive phrases. The
> English was merely used as an illustration.
>
Yes, it *might* work like English. But there was no indication in the
original that English was being used as a model for how Klingon *may* work.
I took it to mean: "English works this way, therefore Klingon does too."
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