tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 07 10:16:53 1996
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Re: Nobody
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>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:27:10 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>Quick question to all grammerians.
>If <Hoch> is "everyone, all, everything"...
>Could <HochtaH> be "nobody, no one, nothing"?
Huh?
Hoch is a noun. -taH is a verb suffix (and a verb. Or maybe two verbs,
depending on how you count). Where do you get the idea that -taH can
somehow negate the idea of a noun? Oh, because it means "be at a negative
angle"? (one of the less-understood word in TKD. I take it to mean
something like Trendelenberg position). That doesn't indicate negation.
It's a verb showing position. You can't negate a noun, not simply, by any
means currently known in Klingon. Negating nouns is tricky business
anyway (as is negation as a whole); a non-book is a thing that isn't a
book, which would make non-everyone mean not everybody, but not necessarily
nobody. That's more like contra-everyone... in which case what, if anything
is a contra-book? But I'm getting afield; there is no mechanism for this
in Klingon that we know of.
>And if not, how would you express the idea of nobody?
This, however, we can answer:
pagh.
Or if you need it to be people, "pagh ghot" (no person, zero people).
~mark
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