daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Sat Feb 18 21:48:57 2012
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120218165456.04557b18@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:47:01 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Feb 18, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>> vaj pajbe'law' ghu'.
>
> pavbe'law'? [See, see how easy it is to do?]
Good job. (It wasn't a typo. I was working offline without a dictionary and just misremembered the word.)
>> > jatlh "yuQlIj wIbavchoHta'. nuqDaq luchlIj wIQol DaneH?" Quv ja' 'eSSIm. ja'
>> > Sogh, "DaHjaj Du' qachlIj chu' mutlhmeH, Qol cha' negh 'ej DunuDmeH Qol je
>> > Qel."
>>
>> *lu*mutlhmeH, qar'a'?
>
> ghobe'! negh ghaH. It drives me crazy but if it's {nuqDaq 'oH ngop'e'} then it has to be {qach mutlhmeH negh}. There are multiple times in this story that I've been desperate to use lu- for clarity but I'm stuck with a choice between QaS and negh.
The {cha'} preceding {negh} makes it plural in my mind when I don't think about it too hard. Have I forgotten some relevant canon regarding explicitly counting inherently plural nouns?
-- ghunchu'wI'
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