tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 06 17:23:58 1997
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Re: Go back three spaces...
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Go back three spaces...
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 97 23:52:58 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 97-07-04 19:35:02 EDT, SuStel writes:
>
> > wa'Hu' jupwI' juHDaq jIqet. loS qelI'qam 'ab chuq.
> >
> > Let's hope we see futher clarification of this soon.
>
> I like your sentences. Here is my clarification, which, of course, is not
> MO's, the one for which we are both waiting.
Only Marc Okrand can "clarify," since only Marc Okrand has access to native
Klingon speakers.
> Yesterday I ran AT my friend's house. The distance "spanned" four
kellicams.
>
> I see this as jogging in the proximity of the friend's house. I do not see
> -Daq as referring to/toward running to his house. Since I have really,
> really been wish-listing for a term meaning "span, cross, transverse," I'd
> love to have it covered already.
While I like the word "span" to cover what {'ab} seems to mean, there's plenty
of evidence to prove that {juHDaq} means "to/towards home" if that's what you
need it to mean. Consider the example in TKD: {pa'Daq yIjaH} "Go to the
room!" The context here is very clear.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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