tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 05 15:14:09 1999
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RE: And then...? And then...? (And then along came Jones...) - For MO
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- Subject: RE: And then...? And then...? (And then along came Jones...) - For MO
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:11:33 -0500
jatlh ~mark:
...
> >
> > *ping* and an adverb for "finally"! Though so far only for finally in
> the
> > sense of "it happened after a long expectation, after being considered
> > late" and not "at the end of the story, when all is/was said and done."
>
>
jang charghwI':
> We still need an exclammatory meaning, "So?" I guess we'll just
> have to do with facial expressions.
>
If you mean "So?" as in "You've said something, but I don't care" or "That
is irrelevant to me; maybe someone else will care", we do have one way to
express the idea, similar to the english quip "Here's 35 cents - go call
someone who cares":
latlh HIvje'Daq 'Iw HIq bIr yIqang!
- KGT, p. 118
-taD