tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 21 19:26:29 1998
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RE: My old neighbor
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> lab Patrick Masterson:
>
> > qan/Qup = age
> > ngo'/chu' = other stuff
>
> > Let's say I wish to refer to someone as my old neighbor,
> > referring to the fact that he's been my neighbor for a
> > long time. Could I refer to him as a jIl ngo'? I think
> > yes, (but I could be wrong) because qan (old, as in not
> > young), refers to age, but the "old" in "old neighbor"
> > doesn't refer to his age, so I'd use ngo'.
>
> That's a good question. I think so, but I'm not absolutely
> certain. I don't
> have any problem with <jIl chu'> for "new neighbor", so there
> should not be
> a problem with <jIl ngo'> for "old neighbor". Most likely the
> difficulty for
> most of us is that the English words are the same, not that the Klingon
> words are different.
>
>
> pagh
> Beginners' Grammarian
>