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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: wej
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Tue Apr 7 15:30:43 2015
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:30:26 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
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Am 07.04.2015 um 20:42 schrieb SuStel:
> So who knows? Maybe {wej} "not yet" really is pronounced {weej}. Or
> maybe not. That's the trouble with having only fictional native
> speakers. However, the phenomenon is quite real, however it may
> manifest. We just can't examine it.
I agree completely. As for wej, it is of course always context related:
- 'ar Dalegh?
- wej vIlegh.
vs.
- Dalegh'a'?
- ghobe', wej vIlegh.
And even without context, the scene in Star Trek 3 for instance makes
clear that {wej... wej...} can not mean "three... three..".
(Okay, that's context related again)
I think it's no problem at all to add some intonation and stress to make
clear that you're not counting. I may make a difference like this
{[wej SuvwI'pu'] vIlegh}.
"I see ... [three warriors]"
vs.
{wej... SuvwI'pu' vIlegh}
"I see the warriors... not yet."
It cannot be expressed when written though.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Stress
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