tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 17 08:13:26 1996
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Re: perpetual Today Is A *****
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: perpetual Today Is A *****
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:13:23 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Anttila Riku-Pekka" at Jan 17, 96 04:25:41 am
According to Anttila Riku-Pekka:
>
> > > (HeghmeH jaj QaQ)
> > Note: In order to get the meaning you suggest below, this
> > should have been {QaQ HeghmeH jaj},...
>
> I don't think I said quite that. Those three words were intended to be the
> "object" of a to-be construction. Putting them in your order would be a
> sentence.
So give me the whole sentence. Debating the construction of a
phrase out of context is rarely productive. Now it sounds like
you want:
HeghmeH jaj QaQ 'oH DaHjaj'e'.
I'm pretty sure its been done and it is not pretty. It remains
loyal to the noun-centric, judgemental, indirect manner of
speech common to English. I mean, what does it really MEAN?
Today is a good day (itself an odd concept; I mean what is it
about the duration of 24 hours that can "be" "good"?) whose
purpose is that somebody dies? What is the INTENT of this
statement? What meaning is at the root? What feeling does the
speaker have such that they are driven to say this thing?
I strongly believe that the statement was SUPPOSED to mean,
"I'm willing and ready to die honorably, here and now." So if
that is what you mean, why rattle on about the intangible
qualities of a 24 hour time span?
charghwI'