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Re: unanalyzable words in tkd

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: unanalyzable words in tkd
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:38:51 -0600
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Quvar:
> >>{vaj toDuj Daj ngeHbej DI vI'}
> >"Shooting of cosmos garbage doesn't proove a warrior's courage"
>  >(TKW: Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle.)

nov wamwI':
>Am I wrong or should {be'} be added to Daj in order for it to mean "no test"
>or "doesn't test"?

No.  {Daj} "test inconclusively" is inherently negative (like the adverbial 
{wej} "not yet}).  {Dajbe'} would mean "it doesn't test inconclusively".

FYI: The antonym of {Daj} is {tob} "test conclusively".  Cf. also {chov} 
"assess, evaluate, test" and {waH} "try out, test, use experimentally".



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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