tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 19 13:52:09 1998
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Re: Verbs of Saying
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Verbs of Saying
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:15:41 -0400
From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
>---qe'San - Jon Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Kahless called his new weapon 'the sword of honour' -
>> {nuH chu'Daj pongpu' qeylIS'e' . batlh 'etlh } .
>
>/pongpu'/ implies to me that someone later changed the name. Just
>/pong/ for simple past tense.
Putting aside the question of {pong} as a verb of saying for a moment, I
don't see a problem with using {-pu'} here.
nuH chuDajvaD batlh 'etlh pongpu' qeylIS.
Kahless named his sword "the sword of honor."
pongpu'
had named
The {-pu'} implies the naming was already done, not that the possession of
the name was over.
I don't think {pong} means "recognize (something) as having the name of."
After all, how could Klingons "regularly" {roD} name Qo'noS "the Homeworld"
if {pong} refers to the recognition of something's "correct" name?
SuStel
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