tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 20 15:29:58 2000
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Re: KLBC: building floors
Just a quick question, because I'm feeling too lazy to search through all of
KGT: would the word /patlh/ "level, layer, standing" work for "story" or
"floor"?
SuStel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 8:30 PM
Subject: RE: KLBC: building floors
> jatlh De'vID:
>
> > How would one talk about "floor" as in the
> > level of a building? I have /rav/ for "floor"
> > as in the separator between stories, but it's
> > not quite the same thing. i.e. I want to say,
> > "We are on the third floor." Which of the
> > following is correct?
>
> The answer is - we don't know. Okrand has given us a very nice variety of
> vocabulary for walls, rooms, floors, etc., but we don't know exactly how
to
> express this. From Okrand's description, though, <tlhoy SaS> seems better
> than <rav>.