tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 19:41:07 1997
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Re: Saj, 'ay' wa'DIch
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Saj, 'ay' wa'DIch
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 04:21:41 UT
[email protected] on behalf of William H. Martin wrote:
> According to David Trimboli:
> >
> > [email protected] on behalf of Deborah Kay wrote:
> ..
> > > Qatlh ghu' 'e' luqelbe'.
> >
> > This ends up meaning, "They do not consider the fact that the situation is
> > difficult." You need {Qub}:
> >
> > Qatlh ghu' 'e' luQubbe'.
[...]
>
> The situation was difficult. They didn't think THAT.
> They didn't think that the situation was difficult.
>
> The situation was difficult. They didn't consider THAT.
> They didn't consider that the situation was difficult.
>
> Now, I'm tending to favor your suggestion, SuStel. I'd even
> consider {Har} a better choice than {qel}. Using {qel} does
> sound like they failed to factor in difficulty of the
> situation, rather than that they believed that the situation
> was normal or even easy.
Exactly. You just explained it a lot better than I did! That's where "the
fact" came in. I was trying to give the feel of the Klingon.
> It has been a while since I've praised your tenacity in facing
> the huge volume of beginner contributions with such an
> impressive quality of commentary and assistance. batlh
> bIvangtaH.
choquvqu'moHneS!
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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