tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 03 14:46:05 1999
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: KLBC challenge
ja' Voragh:
>...But how {Sam} is different from {tu'} in:
>
> QumwI'wIj vItu'laHbe'
> I can't find my communicator. TKD
>
>is beyond me. Presumably the speaker is actively looking for his
>communicator,
>so why doesn't he say {Sam}? Perhaps he's just glancing around cursorily, but
>hasn't started to seriously "seek and find" it yet.
This is a single example which carries no special importance. We know of
many undeniably inferior (or outright incorrect) examples in TKD, and this
one should not unduly concern us.
>: *nowhere* Damugh 'e' vItul :)
>
>I could find no example of "nowhere" used in canon. Lacking a specific word,
>try {vogh} "somewhere, someplace":
>
> vogh vItu'laH
> I can find it somewhere.
Remember, however, that {vogh} is *not* one of the three nouns that never
take the {-Daq} suffix. This should probably be {voghDaq vItu'laH}.
-- ghunchu'wI'