tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 21 18:31:03 2002
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RE: [KLBC] comparing in tlhIngan Hol
- From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: [KLBC] comparing in tlhIngan Hol
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:30:58 -0500
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> > While we're at it, we might also consider {retwIj Sov}
> > and {Sov retwIj}, since it can be thought of as "my past's knowledge" as
> > easily as it can be thought of as "the past of my knowledge" or any
> > other word order arrangement that proves to be most meaningful.
>
> I don't think that /Sov retwIj/ works quite the same. The
> Klingon noun-noun
> is a genitive construction: the first noun modifies the second. The
> translation of /Sov ret/ would work out as "knowledge's time period ago,"
> which isn't quite right, whereas /ret Sov/ would be "time period ago's
> knowledge," which is the meaning we're after (though certainly an awkward
> translation).
Perhaps one could view all knowledge as a realm of it's own, with a past
present and future; that collective force; the enlightenment. /Sov retwIj/
would be MY time period ago in this realm of knowledge, as opposed to my
past in this standard time-space continuum.
/retwIj Sov/ refers to a point in my past but is not restricted to my
knowledge but rather all knowledge; what was the current state of the realm
of knowledge at a point in time in MY past.
Is there anyone out there that understands what I just said?
DloraH