[86012] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: KLBC: The North Wind and the Sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Jun 26 12:45:07 2009
In-Reply-To: <88E18B7D-BBE8-4A71-9D8E-1A5E42418CBA@evertype.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:10:21 -0400
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Everson<everson@evertype.com> wrote:
>
>>> ’Iv HoS law’ ’Iv HoS puS,
>
> On 26 Jun 2009, at 00:40, David Trimboli wrote:
>> It looks like you're trying to use {'Iv} as a relative pronoun, but
>> it doesn't work that way.
>
> No, I was using them in genitive relation to {HoS}.
The {HoS} in your comparitive is a verb. If you're using it as a noun,
your comparitive has no verb of quality.
> ...since the interrogative pronoun 'Iv is treated
> as a noun as far s pronominal suffixes are concerned, I assumed that
> it could stand in genitival relation to HoS. If not... how do you say
> "whose?" "Whose manuscript? My manuscript" = {?????. ghItlhwIj.}
{'Iv HoS} can mean "whose strength". If you're using that phrase as a
noun in a comparative, though, you still need a verb before the {law'}
and {puS}. However, why get unnecessarily wordy? Ask "who is
stronger?", not "whose strength is greater?"
-- ghunchu'wI'
