tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 27 06:35:00 1998
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Re: It's a puzzelment
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: It's a puzzelment
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:27:49 -0600
At 02:42 PM 1/26/98 -0800, charghwI' wrote:
>Lastly, {'ej} does not necessarily imply sequence. If I yell
>{chotIch 'ej choquvHa'moH!} it does not imply that the insult
>preceeded the dishonor. Likely they both happened
>simultaneously.
>
Indeed, ever since I saw Okrand's {beyHom bey bey'a'} example (from the
Skybox card?), I've operated under the theory that sentences with {'ej}
definitely imply simultaneity, and that to show sequence, you must leave
off the {'ej}. The proverb from TKW (which I think goes {bogh tlhIngan,
Suv, Hegh} "A Klingon is born, fights and dies") reinforces this idea:
these verbs are clearly sequential, not simultaneous.
-- ter'eS