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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Ozymandias
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Sep 18 12:10:31 2013
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F6BFCD@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:10:00 -0400
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On Sep 18, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> I met a traveller from an antique land
>> Sep ngo'qu'vo' lengpu'bogh vay' vIqIH.
>
> ... why not simply say {lengwI'} "traveller" instead of {lengpu'bogh vay'} "someone who has travelled"? E.g.
>
> Sep tIQvo' lengwI' vIqIH
He has traveled from there. You didn't meet him from there (if that can even make sense). The phrasing with {lengpu'bogh} is clearly superior.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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