tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 14 18:57:21 1997
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RE: KLBC: Happy New Year!
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Happy New Year!
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 23:36:40 UT
January 13, 1997 9:57 PM EST, jatlh Voragh:
> Seriously though, I agree: interesting use of -Hey. We only have two
> attestations of this suffix in canon, neither of which seem relevant:
> QaghHommeylIjmo' due to your apparent minor errors TKD
QaghHommeyHeylIjmo', qalughmoH: <QaghHommeyHeylIjmo'> bIjalth 'e' DaHech.
> The KlI uses qepHey for the "Virtual qep'a' held periodically at the KEVE.
> Other, totally uncanonical (!), uses of -Hey here on the mailing list
> include: HaStaHey "hologram", may'Hey "(war) game", nuvHey "character,
> persona" (as in a computer game or MUSH), and QuchHey "prosthetic rubber
> (Klingon) forehead".
Not everyone subscribes to this usage of {-Hey}. In fact, I don't like it
much at all. Take {HaStaHey} for "hologram," for example. {HaStaHey} means
"thing which I'm pretty sure is a visual display." That doesn't seem to mean
"hologram" at all. Sometimes people will use {-qoq} in the same way:
{HaStaqoq} means "thing which someone is calling a visual display, but which I
know is not." That's not "hologram," either.
> If you must admit uncertainty, though, it's simplest to just put -law' on
> the verb: DaHjaj javvatlh jabbI'ID vIghajlaw'!
This may mean that you're unsure as to whether you *have* 600 messages, not
how many you have. I prefer your other solution: use {noH} or another verb
which indicates an estimate.
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SuStel
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