tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 08 14:54:39 2010
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RE: qoSwIj
Quoting Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
> buSwI':
>> Ok, so what about expressing "In the future ..." as either of these
>> alternatives:
>>
>> {Hoch pIq ...}
>> {poH Hoch pIq ...}
>> {Hoch poH pIq ...}
>>
>> Perhaps the second alternative is most grammatical, with {poH Hoch}
>> taken to mean "all times". But perhaps {poH Hoch} is rather the
>> "totality of time" which, when used for my original purpose says that,
>> "when all time has passed I will not use bad grammar". Maybe all too
>> true, but not what I wanted to say. ;-)
>>
>> So what about {poHmey Hoch pIq ...}? Does it mean "the totality of
>> times..."
>
> If you insist on using a non-numeric complement with {pIq} -
> although I don't recommend it - there's a better one available:
> {'op} "some, an unknown or unspecified quantity" (n.) which precedes
> the noun it modifies according to our one example:
Right. I was unsatisfied with the alternatives. But we're not after a
raw number as complement? I thought we were after a duration
>
....
>
> So perhaps you could say:
>
> ? 'op pIq pab qab vIlo'be'
Or I thought rather:
'op rep pIq ...
I also notice you removed my {-taH}; I thougt it was appropraite to
express that I would avoid the bad grammar continuosly, not just at
some occasions.
>> Of course, I could give up on saying "in the future" and go for {tugh
>> ...} which yields {tugh pab qab vIlo'be'taH} ("soon I will not be
>> using bad grammar").
>
> I think everyone will agree that {tugh} works here and, in fact,
> this is how I would do it.
Athough it seems to be a goal receding into the distance, I did mean
to say "from now on I will not be using bad grammar", rather than
"sometime in the future..."
/buSwI'
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> Voragh
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