[85537] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: nuq bach?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qa'vaj)
Tue May 26 21:39:20 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A1C644A.9010804@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:34:02 -0500
From: "qa'vaj" <darqang99@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
Looking over the thread, I'm surprised that {-vaD} hasn't been mentioned.
HeSwI'vaD bach yaS. qIp.
"The officer shot at a criminal and hit him."
Which has a slightly different connotation from:
bach yaS. HeSwI' qIp.
"The officer shot. He hit a criminal."
The former being a little clearer that it was the criminal he was intending
to hit when he shot.
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qa'vaj
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