tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 24 18:59:29 2001
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Re: nger tobHa'meH (was Re: KLBC: Qov qeqmeH mu'tlheghmey)
ja' quS'a'Qob bu':
>bIlugh. jIQagh, 'ach <tobHa'> vIyajchu'be'. mu'vam mung 'oH <tob>'e'
>'e' vISov, 'ach Huj mu'vam. mu'vam lo'lu'chugh, vaj lugh nger 'e'
>tobta' vay'. ghIq muj nger 'e' tobta' latlh. DuHbe' ghu'vetlh.
'utbe' je ghu'vetlh. muj nger lugh 'e' tobnISbe' mu'vetlh.
First, the rover {-Ha'} "undo" doesn't have to mean that something is
literally undone that was originally done. Sometimes it just implies a
simple opposite, or even an action done wrongly, which is why one of its
appropriate translations is "mis-".
{bIjatlhHa'chugh, torgh...} "If you say the wrong thing, Torg..."
More importantly, though, {tob} doesn't necessarily refer to a rigorous
mathematical proof. It's quite likely that it works in pretty much the
same way as the English word "prove", which I don't think is quite as
singlemindedly logical as you're trying to make it out to be. In fact, an
early and sometimes still-used meaning of the term is as a synonym for
"test".
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh