tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 15 10:54:57 2001
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re: More questions (was Re: *Paramount* chaw')
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: re: More questions (was Re: *Paramount* chaw')
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:54:46 -0700 (PDT)
Qov:
> ngaQ means "be locked"
> Therefore ngaQwI' means 'a thing that is locked' or 'the locked one.'
> ngaQbe'wI' is 'the unlocked one'.
> e.g.
> ngaQbe'wI' vISampa', Soch lojmIt vIpoSmoH 'e' vInID.
> "I tried to open seven doors, before I found the one that wasn't
locked."
charghwI'
> Ahhh, but is the unlocked door the 7th one or the 8th one? Your
> Klingon and English versions are equally ambiguous.
SaH 'Iv? pab chang'eng. jInep. roD Hoch lojmItmey vIpoSmoHmeH SIbI'
vIpup. ram ngaQchugh pagh ngaQbe'chugh. :)
I understood the question as being more about how to use -wI' than the
search for the least ambiguous way to describe the thingy that one uses
to get doors open. I vot for DaS.
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