[84598] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: latlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Tue May 6 09:32:27 2008
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <361653.88319.qm@web82601.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:30:15 -0400
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
"Of the universal set of nouns, the one involving adjectives"
Doq
On May 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
> --- ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
>
>> On May 5, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Doq wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not suggesting that it is being used as a
>> Klingon adjective. I'm
>>> suggesting that it is being used as an English
>> one.
>>
>> A less contentious interpretation might be to call
>> it an "attributive
>> noun". If you want another example, look at {baS
>> 'In}. Such words
>> indeed act as adjectives in English, but they can
>> just as easily fit
>> the Klingon N-N construction alongside other
>> genitive uses.
>>
>
> "Of the universal set of drums, the one involving
> metal" 8+)
>
> -- ter'eS
>
>
