tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 07 08:41:28 1997
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Re: {-vaD} with qualitative verbs
>Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>I've just read ~mark's post on this, and he used exactly the phrase I've been
>looking for: "as experienced by." It seems that Valkris' statement and the
>similar one in TKD relies on the "as experienced by" meaning, while every
>other one uses the more typical meaning. Given the relative lack of "as
>experienced by" meanings in the Klingon we have so far, I'd just assume avoid
>it until we know more, or at least make sure you're absolutely sure you're
>saying what you mean.
By which you're referring to "Qu'vaD lI' De'vam"? Actually that makes
sense to me without the "as experienced by" idea, really. The task is the
target, the beneficiary of the usefulness of the information.
~mark