[86234] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jul 9 13:55:14 2009
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:52:23 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6A4BBB52B48@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
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Steven Boozer wrote:
> I expected more, but I could only find 3 examples of {-'a'} on a quality:
>
> qIpmeH Qatlh'a'?
> Difficult to hit? ST5
And in this case the entire sentence is suspect, because it's wrong. It
literally means something like, "Is it [the probe] being difficult so
that I may hit it?" Okrand forgot that {-meH} represents a purpose
clause, not every English infinitive. More appropriate would have been
something like, {Qatlh'a' qIpmeH 'eb} "Is the opportunity for hitting
difficult?"
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