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Re: van mu'mey puS je

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ruben Molina)
Fri Jan 7 20:08:10 2011

In-Reply-To: <1E4977B1-956A-480F-B979-DC4DBEB7B169@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:59:02 -0500
From: Ruben Molina <rmolina@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:05 AM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
<lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the {...'e' Qatlh 'oHpu'} has two serious problems:
>
> 1. The word {'oH} can EITHER be used as a PRONOUN or as a VERB, but not BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. If you add {-pu'} to it, you are using it as a verb, but if you are putting it after {Qatlh}, you are using it as a pronoun. Make up your mind.

jIyajchoH

> 2. {Qatlh} cannot take a direct object. {'e'} is a direct object.

bIlugh

> Chew on this as a possible way of saying what I think you were trying to say:
>
> Qatlh mu'tlheghlIj vImughmeH Qu'.

lojmIt tI'wI' nuv qatlho'
ruben




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