tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 10 11:14:38 1999
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Re: KLBC: *'amantIyaDo'* qegh
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- Subject: Re: KLBC: *'amantIyaDo'* qegh
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:13:35 EST
jatlh charghwI':
>In your glossary, you list "whither" as "to what place". I had
>always thought that "where" had this meaning and "whither"
>referred to DIRECTION rather than LOCATION. Hence the 1896
>reference in A. Austin's "England's Darling": "He roams
>abroad. Spying the where and whither of his foes." Similarly,
>the oft repeated lover's promise "Whither thou goest, I shall
>go," implies that I will follow in your direction more than the
>literal being in the same place. I will go with you even as you
>have no established place, but merely a direction.
>
>It gave a way of distinguishing between "Where is she?" and
>"Whither did she go?" You are in a place, but you go in a
>direction. You are not in a direction and you don't go in a
>place. You may go inTO a place, but you don't go in a place.
>
>Meanwhile, if this really is a distinction in the definition, it
>is lost in more modern dictionaries I've checked. Bummer. I
>always liked having a question word that had that distiction.
bIyajHa'ba'. mu'ghomvetlh vIchenmoHta'be'. "Web"Daq DIvI' Hol lut lanta'
"someone else"; DaqwIjDaq SaHbe' DIvI' Hol lut. tlhIngan Hol lut neH
vIchenmoHta'. [email protected] 'oH mu'ghom chenmoHwI' "e-mail address".
- DujHoD