tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 15 18:07:53 1997

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Re: KLBC: wa'leS / wa'Hu'



>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 22:11:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
>> wa'leS means tomorrow, cha'leS means day after tomorrow...
>> What about "wejleS" or "loSleS"? 
>> Same with "vaghHu' " ? HutleS and HutHu' ...
>
>Sure!  Works just fine!  In fact, it's really the only way to describe the 
>time of an event longer than a day ago and less than a year ago, if you're 
>talking about time relative to the present.

It was so cool for me in my translation of Jonah, that I could simply use
{loSmaHleS} for "in 40 days... [Nineveh will be destroyed]"

~mark


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