tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 29 12:30:27 1999
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Re: KLBC: DaH jIjeSqa'
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: DaH jIjeSqa'
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:29:52 CST
ja' charghwI':
> The statement was basically, "I know more than I apparently
> know." I can only interpret that to mean that you are keeping
> some of your knowledge secret, because if you mean "I know more
> than *I* thought I knew", then it doesn't make any sense to use
> {-law'} to say, "than I apparently knew" because appearances are
> judged from the outside.
>
how do you reconcile this position with the statement in TKD, p. 40:
"this suffix [-law'] expresses any uncertainty _on_the_speakers_part_"
(emphasis mine)
?
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]