tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 13 16:11:39 2002
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KLBC: Re: Saj von Suq Qa'Hom cha'DIch'e'
- From: "Sean Healy" <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC: Re: Saj von Suq Qa'Hom cha'DIch'e'
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:11:38 +0000
>qagh Suqjaj vem'eq 'eq 'ach Saj von Suq Qa'Hom cha'DIch'e'
<snip>
>What I was trying to translate is:
>"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese"
I thought {-jaj} was used to express something the speaker wished would
happen. I have often seen it used as above, however, and while both can be
translated 'may' in English, I would have said something like:
chaq qagh Suq vem'eq ...
Do we have canon examples which use {-jaj} to express both uses (i.e., 'may'
as in 'might/could/perhaps/maybe' and 'may' as in 'let this thing happen').
I ask because it seems to me that the English sentences 'May the early bird
get the worm' and 'The early bird may get the worm' express very different
ideas.
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