<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Forgive my DIvI’ Hol, but this is one of those valid, but challenging to parse in real time sentences, since it starts out meaning “Three satellites want one ship” (with the commonplace omission of {lu-} on {neH}), and then you hear {je} and need to start over.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s akin to “Throw that horse over the fence a bail of hay,” which is clearer as “Throw a bail of hay to that horse over the fence,” or “Throw a bail of hay over the fence to that horse."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You could have said {wej SIbDoH vIlegh, ‘ach wa’ Duj neH vIlegh} and said the same thing with the same emphasis, without the temporary confusion.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 21, 2020, at 6:46 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">vay' vItlhojpu'.<br class=""><br class="">mu'tlhegh veb vIqon:<br class=""><br class="">wa' Duj neH wej SIbDoH je vIlegh<br class="">I see only one ship and three satellites<br class=""><br class="">mu'tlhegh vorgh vIqonchugh, 'ej {Duj} DIp SIghchugh {neH} "only" mu',<br class="">vaj mujbe'law' {neH}vam lo'.<br class=""><br class="">muj {neH} lo'vam pa'logh 'e' vIHar, 'a DaH jItlhojpu'..<br class=""><br class="">DIp-DIp tlheghDaq DIp SIghchugh {neH} "only" mu', vaj pagh pab chut pabHa'lu'.<br class=""><br class="">~ Qa'yIn<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>