tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 11 13:57:21 2000
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Re: Raise Your betleH to the Stars.....
jIjatlh:
>>I think the matter in question is whether it makes sense to talk about the
>>"location" of a particular "direction." A direction does not have a
>>location. Assuming an infinite plane, you can stand anywhere and north is
>>still north.
jatlh DloraH:
>How is this different from Dung, bIng, Dop, tlhop, 'em, 'et, 'o', poS, nIH?
>
>"You can stand anywhere and.." tlhop is still tlhop, etc.
Quite true!
Let me put it another way. All of these words, and those like /chan/, etc.,
are "area <specify direction here>." Thus, /Dung/ "area above." On the
other hand, /lurgh/ has nothing to do with an area, even when described as
/Hovmey lurgh/. The question is, can /-Daq/ refer to a direction instead of
an area?
I don't particularly have an answer. I'm not going to be too confused if
someone uses this.
SuStel
Stardate 528.1