tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 18 03:50:34 1995
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Re: easy sentences
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: easy sentences
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 12:52:29 MEZ
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "William H. Martin" at Jan 17, 95 5:48 pm
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]
Well, I really don't want to turn this into
an endlessly ongoing thread, just want to make
sure some minor points
>
> > > > 8. It was a pity the weather was so bad.
> > > > QaHHa'laHpu' SuSmey. vaj moghnISlu'.
> > >
> > > "The wind was able to hinder. So one needs to be frustrated."?
> >
> > I wanted to say: "The winds turned unable to help." that's
> > why I used -Ha' - bad luck it's only a rover by name }}:-{
>
> I think that {-be'} carries this sense of negation enough to
> cover your desired "unable". What is the difference between
> "unable" and "not able" anyway?
>
Sorry. I should have emphasized "turned", i.e. a change of
state from being favorable to not being so. -be' seems to
simply state what it is like now - no matter what it was
before. However, my sentence could be misinterpreted
as "the winds were able to turn unhelpful", which is
not what I meant.
> > This would mean, that you set out to do it, but the wind
> > spoilt it, right? I understand the original, that because
> > of the weather you didn't even start to do it.
>
> I guess I don't get it. Whether the wind spoils an attempt to
> execute, or that it spoils an attempt to start to execute,
> either way, we are unlucky.
>
probably my problem in expressing what I meant :-(
I try again:
1. you go out on the hunt and _while_you're_at_it_,
the weather turns bad (not what I was going to
say)
2. you planned to go hunting, but _before_you_could_
leave_ the weather turned bad (that's what I
wanted to say)
However, I think I see now the major points, I
wanted to have made clear to me.
qatlho'qu'
Marc 'Doychlangan'
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Marc Ruehlaender [email protected]
Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
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