tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 13 08:14:36 1998
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Re: muD Dotlh...again
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: muD Dotlh...again
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:01:47 -0400
From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
>Assuming {peD} and {SIS} take any subject at all, I'd tend towards {chal}.
>Experientially, you observe rain or snow falling from somewhere overhead,
>i.e., from the sky. {muD} seems to me to be more all-encompassing; the
>atmosphere reaches all the way to the ground. Since rain and snow don't
>precipitate out of the atmosphere all around us, I don't think {muD} in
>general would be considered the source of the precipitation.
But this goes against the explanation of {muD Dotlh}. If the correct
subject were {chal}, wouldn't the phrase be {chal Dotlh}? It's not. One
never asks another about the condition of the weather at his feet, yet one
could claim that {muD Dotlh} could mean exactly that. Yet {muD Dotlh} is
the correct term.
Does this make sense:
tlhIngan wa': muD Dotlh nuq?
tlhIngan cha': SIS chal.
The first Klingon didn't ask for the status of the sky, he asked for the
status of {muD}. I'm sure he expects the answer to be about {muD}.
SuStel
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