tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 18 18:05:51 1997
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lI'Ha' tera'ngan mu'ghom
- From: "HurghwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: lI'Ha' tera'ngan mu'ghom
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:04:50 -0800
<which?> <only> je lumughlu'meH mIw lo'lubogh 'e' wIghoHmo', mu'ghomDaq
vInej. lI'Ha'chu' mu'ghom! <which?> QIjmeH, <what one out of a group> jatlh,
<which one out of a group> Hech. rap <which> <which> je. wejpuH. 'ej <only>
QIjmeH, pagh jatlh! QIjbe'!
After the recent discussions about "which?" and "only," I decided to look
them up in the dictionary to see exactly what they mean in English. To my
amazement, the dictionary proved completely useless. For "which?," it
defined it as "what one out of a group," or as it should have been, "which
one out of a group." So "which" means "which." What an enormous
breakthrough. And as for "only," it didn't even define "only" when used in
<it is only X>/<it is X alone>. It merely gave the adv, adj, and the
conjunction synonym for "but."
-HurghwI'