tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 15 07:41:16 1996
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Re: cha'logh jImeQ
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cha'logh jImeQ
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:41:13 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Marc Ruehlaender" at Jan 12, 96 02:32:31 am
According to Marc Ruehlaender:
>
> although I'm not sure how far one can go in comparing
> terran (natural) languages with extraterrestrians (constructed)
> languages, I think I agree more with Guidos view about -taH
> than with charghwI's. Follows my own point of view...
> Another example comes to my mind: when I'm sitting at a
> terminal and a colleague comes by asking "what are you doing", I
> usually would use the 0 suffix, if I want to stress that I'm
> continuously doing it (e.g. "still" :) I might want to use -taH,
> if he asks because he wants to know if I have the time to join him
> (to do something together) and I want to say "yeah, I'll soon be
> finished with this" I might want to use -lI'.... I'm not sure
> if this example was any help in making my point...)
I was arguing that {-taH} could generally be translated as
"still", while ghuy'Do argued otherwise. You state that you
agree with him, yet your example agrees with me. chomISmoH.
> HomDoq
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> Marc Ruehlaender [email protected]
> Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany
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charghwI'
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