tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 16 00:01:40 1994
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Finals
- From: [email protected] (Matt Whiteacre)
- Subject: Finals
- Date: Mon, 16 May 94 08:59:07 PDT
>
>According to Matt Whiteacre:
>...
>> I'm not sure I'd interpret "on Monday, my instructor will prove (test
>> conclusively?) me" as "On Monday, I must take a final exam". Even though I
>> realize that "ghach" is not a popular suffix what about:
>>
>> qaSDI' "Monday", nuDghach Qav muloH ghojmoHwI'wI'
>>
>> | | Matt Whiteacre
>
>My problem with this is that I interpret "examine" {nuD} to
>mean "to look at closely; to investigate." We call a big test
>an exam, short for examination, but I think this is a very
>idomatic use of the word and I don't have a lot of reason to
>think that Klingons would use a nominalization of the verb
>"examine" to mean a big test. His instructor is not going to
>examine him. He is going to test him. It is the final,
>conclusive test for the course he is taking. I think I have to
>stick to a decided preference for {tob} here.
>
>charghwI'
>
>
Let me try one other approach which inspired by your puzzle piece analogy.
If you split the concept into two sentences you could get:
qaSDI' "Monday", SovwI' tob ghojwI'wI'
muloHbogh nuDghach Qav 'oH
or
qaSDI' "Monday", laHwI' tob ghojwI'wI'
muloHbogh nuDghach Qav 'oH
depending on exactly what was being tested.
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