tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 14 06:55:10 2010
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Re: jISIv
- From: Krenath <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jISIv
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:52:56 -0400
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What do you mean by 'timestamp'?
The last thing I think of when I think of a 'timestamp' is anything relative.
A timestamp is absolute. (Midnight, 4pm, January 3rd 478AD)
A timespan is relative. (yesterday, 5 minutes ago, next week)
Of course, I'm more a software developer than a linguist...
On Sep 14, 2010, at 7:01 AM, "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think of time stamps as either being absolute (like midnight) or relative TO NOW (like tomorrow). I don't think that a time stamp is the right grammatical structure to talk about the length of a span of time between two events, neither of which is now.
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> My suggestion {qaSpu'mo' tup 'ar jIpaS?} translates to "I will be late because how many minutes have happened?" Is it really that obtuse? You seem fixated on using a time stamp here. You really can talk about time without always having to use it as a time stamp.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:51 AM, R Fenwick <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> ghItlhpu' lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
>>> Today, I thought I might be late. I said to myself, "How late will I be?"
>>> I considered how I would say that in Klingon.
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>> jIjatlh jIH:
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>> chaq jIpaS. tup/rep/jaj 'ar pIq jIpaw?
>> I may be late. How many minutes/hours/days in the future will I arrive?
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>> taH:
>>> I rejected {'ar jIpaS} because, though an English speaker would understand
>>> it, grammatically, I've only seen {'ar} used adjectivally, not adverbially.
>>> It might make sense as {tup 'ar jIpaS}, though that is, itself, an odd
>>> grammatical construction, as would be {tup 'ar vIpaS}.
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>> Not if {tup 'ar} is acting as a time stamp, though {tup 'ar jIpaS} would be
>> more like "For how many minutes will I be late?", which doesn't work for me.
>> It implies that you will stop being late after a certain number of minutes,
>> which simply can't happen: even after you arrive ten minutes late, you are
>> still late.
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>>> One has no grammatical connection between {tup} and the verb.
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>> There's never an overt grammatical connection between a time stamp noun and
>> the main verb of the clause it modifies.
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>>> I could even stretch it to {qaSpu'mo' tup 'ar jIpaS?} It's a little awkward,
>>> but it carries the meaning clearly enough.
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>> Not really; taking the sentence on its face, I can't get to "How late will I
>> be?" from it. "Because it has happened, how many minutes will I be late for?"
>> I can't wrap my head around it.
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>>> So, I thought the best way might be simply to say, {tugh jIpaSqu' 'e' vISIv}.
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>> pabbej. "I wonder if I will soon be very late." Is there a need to specify by
>> how much time you were going to be late?
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>> QeS 'utlh
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