tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 09 10:53:21 1997
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Re: Go back three spaces...
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>Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:04:59 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
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>Then, how do you say "I run at his house?" DaH qaqaD SuStel
Klingon pretty clearly seems to use -Daq both for locative and allative
meanings (i.e. it's used both for "in" and "to"). It's hardly alone in
this, and usually context will disambiguate. In general, when you say
"juHDajDaq jIqet" you want the allative meaning, so that's what will be
understood. In a context where your listeners know better, they'll work
out that you mean the locative meaning. If you think they'll mess up, you
can use a longer circumlocution like {juHDajDaq jIHtaHvIS jIqet}, to be
sure.
Languages pretty much never match each other's preposition sets. Insisting
that Klingon *must* distinguish "to" (as a direction) and "in" just because
English does is culturally biased.
~mark
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