tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 12 06:00:29 1998
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Re: poH'a'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: poH'a'
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:49:36 -0500
From: Qov <[email protected]>
>{poH'a'} refers to not so much a large period of ordinary time, but
>something greater than time. Simply "a lot of time" would be {poH tIn}.
>Someone is going to follow up and insist that this should be {poH law'} but
>{poH} is a "period of time" and it's not a lot of them, but one big one
that
>your efforts demand. So I think I'm right.
You're right about the follow-up but wrong about the response. I don't
agree with {poH tIn} or {poH law'}. {poH law'} is "many periods of time."
That's no good.
{tIn} means "big," but not "lengthy (time)." {tIn} refers to physical size.
That's {nI'}. The correct translation of "a lot of time" is {poH nI'}.
I also have little problem with {poH'a'}, in fact. It's possible it refers
to a more grandiose or better period of time than {poH}, or it could mean a
longer period of time. I don't think it means what you say, "something
greater than time." A Golden Age, for instance, might be referred to as
{poH'a'}.
SuStel
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