tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 24 17:09:58 1995
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Re: }} Sov vs. ghov
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: }} Sov vs. ghov
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:09:58 -0400
>From: [email protected]
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 13:58:23 EST
>On Thu, 24 Aug 1995 David Barron wrote:
>> k > Should this be Qo'noSDaq vay' Daghov'a'?
>>This is an interesting point.
>>{ghov} may be less ambiguous.
>>In Esperanto there are two verbs for "know": [scias] for knowing
>>information and [konas] for knowing a person. (I hope I dont have
>>these two verbs mixup.)
>Same thing in French. I remember giggling in my high school class about using
>the wrong "to know". If you use the object version on a person, it means you
>know them in the biblical sense.
Yeah, lots of languages make that distinction (French, Spanish, Welsh,
Hebrew)... Looks to me like we have evidence that Klingon chances not to be
one of them. How 'bout that?
>Besides, <ghov> is "recognize" not "know". "Do you recognize anyone on Kronos?"
> sounds like an intergalactic lineup. ("Could number 4 please step forward and
>say 'nuq neH'.")
Yeah. I think peHruS was looking at the fact that in most languages that
do make that difference, the "know" for people is the same as "recognize."
~mark