tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 28 18:41:29 1994
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Re: jIngo'qu'
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jIngo'qu'
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 21:41:24 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Joel Anderson" at Nov 28, 94 6:01 pm
According to Joel Anderson:
>
>
> qoS vanmey mungeHtaH ghotpu'
> Satlho'qu'!
>
> 'ach vItlhob:
>
> > jar wa'maH cha'DIch jaj wejmaH loSmaH DISmey vIghaj je.
> ~~~~October 2nd~~~~~~~~ 30 40 ? years I have and
Not quite. Note the suffix {-DIch}. When it goes on a number,
it makes the numbers "ordinal". {wa'} is "one", but {wa'DIch}
is "first". So {wa'maH cha'DIch} is "12th", and ordinal
numbers always follow the noun that it describes, so {jar
wa'maH cha'DIch} is "12th month". I should have put {-DIch} on
30 as well, though I think at the time, I was thinking in terms
of "Day #30", which would leave the bare number following its
noun. Still, that is obviously confusing, since it is right
next to {loSmaH}, which is the number applied to {DISmey}. It
should have been:
jar wa'maH cha'DIch jaj wejmaHDIch loSmaH DISmey vIghaj je.
"On the 30th day of the 12th month, I will have 40 years as
well."
> > bImobbe'. qatlhej. manqan, 'ach naghmey vItoSlaH vaj jIqanqu'be'.
> ^^^^^^ ?? man-"be old"?
>
> I see I probably should have said jIqanqu'. But I agree - one is only
> as old as they feel, and if they feel like climbing rocks - they are
> not old.
>
And this one DEFINITELY feels like climbing rocks. Were I but
cliffside, even now...
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