tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 28 08:21:12 1998
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Re: QoywI' tojbogh SoQ
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: QoywI' tojbogh SoQ
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 08:31:52 -0400
From: WestphalWz <[email protected]>
>In a message dated 98-04-25 21:11:35 EDT, SuStel analyzes peHruS' post
about
>Einstein and his chaffeur:
>
>>>loghmey law' SoQlIj vIQoypu'. (1)
>>
>> "Your speech(es) of many spaces"?
>
>(1) Recently I have seen many uses of time words pluralized, even
abstracted.
>I tried it here, too. {loghmey law'} has nothing to do with "space(s)".
Oohhhhh, I get what you're trying to do. No, that doesn't work at all.
{-logh} is a number suffix, not a word. Unless there's slang that I don't
remember, the correct way to talk about "many times" is {pIj}.
>>>ghelpu'bogh nuvpu'vaD jangchu' je ghaH. (2)
>>
>> I'd say {ghelbogh
>> nuvpu'vaD jangchu'}. Better yet, {luyu'bogh nuvpu'vaD jangchu'}. >>
>
>(2) I cannot [now] accept that {yu'} means anything less than "interrogate
[a
>prisoner, e.g.], question [someone]". Perhaps it was before you joined
this
>listserv that discussion already determined that it is not appropriate for
>"ask [a question]".
But that's just what they were doing: asking him questions. Interrogating.
You don't have to be a prisoner to be interrogated. I don't know how you
think this list "determined" what {yu'} really means, but if someone asks a
series of questions and expects to receive the answers, that's {yu'}. Sure,
it has a severe feel about it because of the English word, and Klingons may
also have the severe feel about it (which may explain why the word was
chosen), but to a Klingon (and it IS their language we're speaking) this
would hardly be considered uncomfortable.
SuStel
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