On 6/15/2019 12:14 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
On Jun 15, 2019, at 9:42 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com <mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com>> wrote:
Is {chaHDaq Hopbogh Daq tu'lu'} correct for "far from them there was a location" ?
ghaytan pab 'a qech DaDelmeH chaq qaq mu'mey pIm.
It seems to match the English okay. I am not sure what you’re going for, though, so there might be a better way to say it.
You can rely on an unstated deixis, as Okrand suggests in his interview mentioning it. Something like: *DIS Dab cha' qanwI'. Sor Hop tu'lu'. Hoch jaj Sor leng wa' qanwI'.*/Two old people lived in a cave. There was a faraway tree. Every day one old person would travel to the tree./ Not very good, perhaps, but it's just meant to illustrate the point. *Hop* is relative to whatever you're talking about. So talk about something, then describe it as *Hop.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name