tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 19 09:07:23 1996
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Re: existence
- From: "Garrett Michael Hayes" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: existence
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:01:45 -0400
- Organization: Client/Server Labs
- Priority: normal
On 19 Jul 96 at 8:42, A.Appleyard wrote:
> Even in a hard action-minded and attacking-first people with no tendency to
> philosophise, the idea of simple existence or nonexistence arises sometimes.
> E.g.:-
> (1) A village headman on Qo'noS, pressed hard about why he has not delivered
> as ordered {qagh} which the local commander had allocated in advance in large
> amounts to this officers' barracks and that, may finally and heatedly have to
> say e.g. "The qagh that your orders refer to DO NOT EXIST, therefore I could
> not have withheld them. The marsh where they breed has dried up in the
> drought, as I kept trying to tell you. I can't help the weather.".
<puH QaDmoH 'eng Dach, 'e' vIja'. Heghpu'qu' Hoch qagh!
loj bIH.>
*exist* vIleghbe'.
> (2) The captain finally found out by a more reliable source than the Ferengi
> traders, that the dilithium referred to in the invoice <existed>, but it was
> far too far away for him to get hold of it in time for the coming battle.
Hop cha'puj. may'vamvaD 'oH wISichbe'.
wej *exist* vIlegh.
'etlhqengwI'
(vuDmeywIjvaD jIngoy' jiH'e')