tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 12 18:39:56 1998
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Re: poH'a'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: poH'a'
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:38:40 -0800
At 06:02 98-02-11 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}K'ryntes jang Qov:
}>{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.
}
}I agree that {poH law'} is not the right idea. The idea considered
}here is not "many times." But it's not a "big time," either. It's a
}"long time." The period of time being talked about isn't "large" the
}way a physical object is. It's "lengthy" the way a boring lecture is.
}
}The "right" way to say this is obviously {poH nI'}.
bIlughba'. rut jIQong 'e' yIchaw'neS.
Qov [email protected]
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