<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 23:31, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
<p>We might also suppose that the <b>reH</b> remains before the
main sentence but that <b>latlh qabDaq</b> modifies something
else, and <b>qul</b> just gets in the way because of the odd
syntax. It might be attached to <b>tuj:</b> <i>fire's
hot-on-another's-face is many, and all else's hot is few; this
is always true.</i> Or it might be attached to <b>law':</b> <i>fire's
hot is many </i><i><i>on-another's-face, </i>and all else's
hot is few; this is always true.<br></i></p></div></div></blockquote><div> I would think of it as being applied to "A's Q is many", so something like "on someone else's face, fire's hot is many; everything (else)'s hot is few".</div><div><br></div><div>We also have {DujvamDaq tlhIngan nuH tu'lu'bogh pov law' Hoch pov puS} which follows a similar structure. "on this ship, Klingon weapons which are found's excellent is many; everything (else)'s excellent is few".</div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Thinking about this some more, it occurred to me that the {tu'lu'bogh} changes the scope of {-Daq} explicitly. {DujvamDaq tlhIngan nuH tu'lu'bogh} is a perfectly good noun phrase (whereas {DujvamDaq tlhIngan nuH} isn't). <div><br></div><div><div>This suggests the contrasting:</div><div><br></div><div>{tlhIngan nuH pov law' DujvamDaq Hoch tu'lu'bogh pov puS}<br></div><div>"the Klingon weapon is better than anything on this ship"</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>