[85534] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: nuq bach?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue May 26 17:54:26 2009
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:51:06 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
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Brent Kesler wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> nuq bachchu' yaS?
>> What did the officer shoot?
>> (i.e. what did the officer shoot at?)
>
> If I heard this question, I'd probably answer something like {nISwI'}.
> So if {nuq} can also mean "what target" in this case, we have another
> ambiguous sentence.
I agree. Nothing tells us that {bachchu'} means "shoot and hit," and
nothing tells us that the kind of object the verb takes will change with
the addition of the suffix. It could just mean "shoot with perfect form."
nuq qIp yaS?
What did the officer hit?
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David Trimboli
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