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'
(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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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 2:14 PM
On 11/18/2016 3:12 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
jIH:
> tlhoy le' DaHjaj ram gyrosI 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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