tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 19 12:32:17 1998
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Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
tejna' SoHbe'ba'.
According to David Trimboli:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
>
>
> >I've noticed {tob} is more like "prove", and {Daj} is of course a backfit.
> >A good equivalent for our word "test" is actually {'ol}.
>
> But what a wonderful backfit it is! We have no word like it in English that
> I can think of.
>
> Both {tob} and {Daj} mean "test." However, with {tob} you get results, and
> with {Daj} you don't. If you have a theory and you want to prove that it's
> true, the following sentences might be used:
>
> ngerwIj vItob
> I test my theory and find out if it's true or not. (This doesn't say
> anything about whether your theory was right or not, just that you
> discovered the truth without a doubt.)
not nger toblaH vay'. ngoD 'oHbe' nger'e'. nger lulajlaH tejpu'
'ach not toblaH. qaStaHvIS wejvatlh DIS *Newton* ngermey laj
tejpu'. *Newton* ngermey tobHa' *Relativity*. tlhoS qar
*Newton* 'ach qaSDI' wanI' le', qarbe'. DaH *Relativity* lulaj
tejpu'. chaq tugh *Relativity* tobHa'laH latlh nger.
> ngerwIj vIDaj
> I test my theory but I am unable to determine the correctness of it. (You
> still don't know if it's true or not.)
reH ngermey DajtaH tejpu'.
> ngerwIj vI'ol
> I verify my theory. I determine that my theory is, in fact, correct.
> (Presumably, I'm a good enough scientist to have done so conclusively,
> though that fact is not actually specified in the verb. You shouldn't be
> able to verify something you haven't conclusively tested.)
ghobe'. nger DajmeH, 'olqa'lu'taH. 'olta'chugh tobta'be'.
> Now, because {tob} also means "prove," it's possible that you cannot {tob}
> something and have it turn out to be wrong. I rather like my own
> interpretation, 'ach ngerwIj vIDaj.
chaq naDev wI'ollaH...
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