tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 13 21:54:38 1998
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Re: poH'a'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: poH'a'
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:53:12 -0800
At 16:15 98-02-13 -0800, charghwI' wrote:
}On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 06:07:29 -0800 (PST) Alan Anderson
}<[email protected]> 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.
}
}And I'm going to disagree and say that {poH law'} IS an
}acceptable term. While the definition is only "many" or
}"numerous", it has been applied to things you can't count, like
}energy. I suggest it also means, "much", especially since there
}is no OTHER word for "much". The notes I have for {law'} are:
}
}>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
}It can be use both for things you can count and those you can't:
}
} - tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq batlh cha'lu'
} [It] has been emblazoned upon the hulls of countless Klingon starships. SP1
}
} - HoS law'qu' luch law'qu' je lo' Duj nuH pat Hub pat je
} A huge amount of the ship's power and technology is devoted to its
} weapons grid and defensive systems. SP3
}
} - chIch vay' 'oy'moHmeH 'oy'naQ 'ul law' tlhuD 'oH
} Painstiks... emit a highly-charged shock for the express purpose of
} inflicting pain. S32
}
} - HoS law'qu' natlhmo' So'wI'
} Due to the tremendous energy drain of a cloaking device... S33
}
}<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
}
}> The idea considered
}> here is not "many times." But it's not a "big time," either.
}
}But it could be "much time", similar to {HoS law'}.
Look again at the definition of {poH}. It's "period of time." I at first
liked {poH law'}, but I think that if a verb of quantiy is applied to
"period of time" the resuly isn't a long period.
}charghwI'
}
}
}
}
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