tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 25 17:55:27 2000
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Re: KliFlash [Was: Re: tlhIngan Hol pojwI' 2.0]
>>... pIq "QorwaghvaD Kliflash" vIghun.
[email protected]:
> I believe this is incomplete. specify the unit [pIq] is refering to.
ter'eS:
: I've lost my original notes to {pIq}. I was under the impression that it
: simply referred to some time in the future. If not, how does it differ
: from the other words we have to express definite days, years, etc. in the
: future?
You may have been confusing {pIq} with {qen} "recently, a short time ago"
which does not require that a specific time period be named. (Our old
friend {tugh} "soon" would appear to be its complement "a short time from
now".)
According to Okrand's article in HolQeD 8.3, {pIq} and {ret} follow the
noun specifying the lengh of time involved:
pIq "period of time from now"
- cha' tup pIq
"two minutes from now".
ret "period of time ago"
- cha' tup ret
"two minutes ago"
These are words for those irregular periods of time not otherwise provided
for: Hu'/leS for days, wen/waQ for months, ben/nem for years. We were
told specifically there isn't one of these word pairs for weeks, oddly enough.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons