tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 01 08:51:36 1999
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Re: KLBC challenge
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC challenge
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:51:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
- Priority: NORMAL
You disregard the excellent possiblity that {batlh} might be
used as a noun instead of as an adverb. It was used as a noun.
Meanwhile, on further considerations (as you'll read if you keep
catching up), I decided that {tu'lu'} is better used here than
{'oH}.
charghwI' 'utlh
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 07:39:35 -0400 [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 6/29/1999 10:57:44 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> << Shouldn't that be: {Dat 'oHtaH batlh'e'} "honor is everywhere"? Even if it
> weren't an equational sentence, {-taH} "continuous" nicely reinforces {Dat}
> "everywhere". Hmmm... or is {Dat batlh 'oH} supposed to mean, "it (either
> {ghoch} or {He}) is honorably everywhere"? >>
> =============
> I have not read further than this message yet. Dangerous, I know. There is
> probably some other comment that will invalidate my message altogether; but,
> here goes. I read {Dat batlh 'oH} only as "It is honorably everywhere."
> And, the "it" ('oH) appears to refer back to "goal" (ghoch) without any
> problem to me.
>
> Since the question referred to one's having forgotten the goal, charghwI'
> 'utlh's answer implies that one's goal is everywhere, honorably, remembered
> or forgotten.
>
> peHruS