tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 06 19:11:22 2000
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RE: obtuse question
This is what I'd see as the difference between {vebHa'} and {vebbe'}.
Likely, {vebbe'} means what peHruS might be suggesting. You are merely
talking about something that is not next in a sequence. It may be some other
item in the sequence either before the current item or far later, or it
might not be in the sequence at all.
Meanwhile, {vebHa'} strikes me as the mirror opposite of {veb}, so it would
be the previous item in a sequence.
charghwI'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: obtuse question
>
>
> In a message dated 6/27/2000 11:48:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> << Me, too, Xardana. I have looked at using {vebHa'} or {vebbe'} for
> "previous,
> >prior," and have not liked how they feel to me.
>
> qatlh /vebHa'/ Dapar?
> = What's wrong with /vebHa'/? >>
>
> Although {vebHa'} undoes the sense of being "next in a series,"
> it does not
> imply to me the "previous, prior." It may bring me back only to
> the present
> by not being next.
>
> peHruS