tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 13 19:31:09 1994
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Good day to die.
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Good day to die.
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 11:24:30 -0500
uu> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <ur-valhalla!cs.columbia.edu!shoulson>
uu> A good point, and I can't really disallow "jajvam" (having used
uu> "ramvam" occasionally myself, tho in truth DaHjaj ram would be better).
uu> But for "today", you should really consider the normal usage: DaHjaj
uu> is given for "today" in TKD. "jajvam" would be more like "this day" in
uu> English, which means about the same thing, but sounds affected.
I would think that {jamvam} would be used to indicate a particular day, not
necessarily "today". More like "On this day, we ate fish" when one is
pointing to a spot on the calendar. Not really proper English, I realize, but
{jamvam} just doesn't HAVE to mean "today".
Qob
... Hey, since the guys at CompUSA wear read shirts, can we shoot them?