thanks ! before I write the final sentence {tlhoy le' DaHjaj ram gyros}, I thought of writing: {DaHjaj ram tlhoy le' gyros}. But I chose not to write this, because *it felt* as if it was expressing "every night I buy from the same seller, but tonight something happened, and that seller made a better gyro". Then I thought of writing: {DaHjaj ram tlhoy le' gyros vISopta'bogh}. but again *I felt* that the further away I place the "gyros" from the {DaHjaj ram}, the more its significance is weakened (if this makes any sense). It is not that "every night I eat gyro, and tonight it happens to be exceptional" (which I *feel* is conveyed by the previous two sentences); it is that tonight "it so happened that I ate it, and this gyros, *tonight's gyros* was exceptional". So, I went with the {DaHjaj ram gyros}, and I'm happy to hear that it is a legal construct. 'ej DaH jIjatlhnISqa': 'elaDya'ngan jIHmo', gyros tzatziki je vImuSHa' ! hehehe qunnoH ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta' On 18 Nov 2016 10:20 pm, "Steven Boozer" <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
(st.klingon 6/1997): {*DaHjaj}* also behaves as a noun (as opposed to an adverbial element) in such noun-noun constructions as {*DaHjaj gheD}* “*today prey”* or “*today's prey”*, a term often heard in Klingon restaurants with a meaning comparable to “*catch of the day”*.
(KGT 100ff.): In some restaurants, the menu ({*HIDjolev}*) is posted (seldom are individual copies available), but in most, the patrons know the regular fare and ask about specials, including the {*DaHjaj gheD} *(literally, "today's prey"), a dish whose components depend on what animals the restaurant's hunters were able to bring in.
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*On Behalf Of *SuStel *Sent:* Friday, November 18, 2016 2:14 PM
On 11/18/2016 3:12 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
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tlhoy le' DaHjaj ram gyros
I wrote this to mean "the gyros of tonight was excellent". however I need to ask: can someone use a timestamp (in this case {DaHjaj ram}), as the first pair of a noun-noun construction, where the second noun is being possessed by the first ? Can we say {DaHjaj Soj}, for "today's food" ?
HIja'. DIp 'oH neH *DaHjaj*'e'.
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