tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 22 14:21:06 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 3
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 3
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:20:51 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> <loS vI' jav 'uj neH 'aD torgh> = “Torg measures only 4.6 ‘uj.” It’s not
>> explicit, but I hope you’ll understand this as the vertical dimension.
>
> In the long-defunct startrek.klingon forum on MSN, Marc Okrand once wrote:
>> There are two words used for length: {'aD} and {'ab}. Both of these can
>> be translated as "have a length of", but they are used somewhat
>> differently. {'aD} is used in contrast with {juch} "have a width of" in
>> measuring, say, a table top. {'ab}, on the other hand, is used for
>> (potentially) longish, skinnyish things (for example, spears) and also
>> for heights.
>
> So {'ab} would be preferable to {'aD} in this passage.
As a matter of fact, in that same post MO gives the example:
jav 'ujmey 'ab SuvwI' "the warrior has a length of six ujs" (about 6'10")
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De'vID
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