tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 23 07:44:16 2006
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Re: loy
Quvar:
>Can one use {loy} in the sense of "I guess everyone has seen him"?
QeS:
> > That being said, the English "I guess everyone has seen him" is also
> > idiomatic for what could be expressed in Klingon as {leghlaw'pu' Hoch}
> > "everyone has apparently seen him"; I'd only use {...'e' vIloy} if I was
> > actually referring to a guess or theory, as in "I guessed the answer to
> > the question".
Quvar:
>That's what my question was. Thanks. I see it the same way, taking "guess"
>only literally.
For those interested in other uses of "guess", while we don't have examples
of {loy} in canon we do have one for {noH} "judge, estimate":
chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq'e' vInoH
Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. (ST5)
In this case it's not a sentence-as-object but a topicalized (?) object,
showing that {noH} is transitive. I guess that {loy} works similarly. <g>
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons