tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 23 00:15:20 1998
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Re: Nature phenomenon
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Nature phenomenon
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 00:14:31 -0800
At 11:11 98-01-22 -0800, you wrote:
}According to Qov:
}..
}> {jev} I believe refers to storm, as in to storm an enemy position, not a
}> nature phenomenon.
}
}I'm curious where you picked that up. I don't see any reference
}to this in any of my word lists.
Simply because it is a verb. In my idiolect, and in my dictionary "to
storm" is to be violent or angry, to attack in that manner. The noun "storm"
represents a natural phenomenon, but I would never say "it stormed" or "the
weather storms." Always "there was a storm"or "we're experiencing a storm."
Marc Okrand has defined words that are nouns in English and verbs in Klingon
in a way that is consistent with the way English speakers use them, thus
"experience a tremor" not "tremor (v)." I have always considered it wrongly
used to describe weather.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian