tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 13 10:05:26 1996
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Re: KLBC:Name that Song
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>Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:23:56 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>"Dwell" and "live" are separate concepts. Klingon uses the noun {ngan} to
>express the meaning given by the verb "reside" in English. Maybe you could
>get across "still dwell" with {ratlhtaH} "continuously remain"?
You said once before that "yIn" might be wrong for "dwell"; with THAT I'll
agree. But I'm not sure where you get your evidence that it IS wrong and
that you must use "ngan" (or is that what you're implying here?) After
all, we know that there are some languages in which the two concepts are
not conflated, and different words are used (e.g. Hebrew) and languages in
which the same word is used for both in common speech (e.g. English). Who
is to say in which category Klingon falls? Well, we know who is to say,
but He who is to say hasn't yet done so.
~mark
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