tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 28 14:13:54 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] ramwI'mey
At 13:37 28/02/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
Qov:
> I don't think it would be wrong to say ...
>
> De'wI'wIj vIlaghtaHvIS bong vIlaghHa'. DaH vagh leQmey vIjomqa'laHbe'.
"While disassembling my computer I accidentally mis-disassembled it.
Now I cannot re-install five switches."
Exactly my problem. Do' leQ bIng vI'uylaHtaH.
I'm guessing you're saying that you made a mistake whilst taking
your computer apart (and now you have 5 extra switches you don't
know what to do with) using the "do wrongly" meaning of {-Ha'}.
Yeah they're on my dresser. I can't tell if they are broken, or I'm
just missing the right wiggle to get them back into place.
But can't this be collapsed to:
bong De'wI'wIj vIlaghHa'.
I would read that (without further context) as "I accidentally put my
computer back together" (Like I wasn't supposed to, for some reason).
I at first understood the "undo" meaning. I took *{laghHa'} to mean
put back together or reassemble something you had previously taken apart.
I find it hard to interpret laghHa' as other than assemble, hence the
verbiage to try and force you to understand {vIlaghHa'} as
{vIlaghtaHvIS jIQagh}
(Flashback to the time I had to field strip an M-16 rifle and then
put it back together again in front of three Marine DI's while in
Navy Officer Candidate School. Fortunately I managed to do it
eventually even though I'm generally mechanically inept; at least,
I wasn't the last to finish!)
majQa'.
- Qov
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