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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Iluvatar screwed them over

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Dec 27 12:25:04 2016

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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:24:30 -0500
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On 12/27/2016 12:17 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> jIH:
>> rInbe' qo'
> SuStel:
>> qo' rInmoHlu'ta'be'
> I can understand that the {qo' rInmoHlu'ta'be'} means "someone didn't
> finish the world"; but why doesn't the {rInbe' qo'} mean "the world
> isn't finished" ?

It does. But /finished/ can mean "complete, fully created" or it can 
mean "ended," and I think canon has shown it leaning more toward the 
latter sense, so it's what I first thought. What you said isn't wrong, 
but I could only disambiguate based on my previous knowledge of the book.

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/27/2016 12:17 PM, mayqel qunenoS
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      <pre wrap="">jIH:
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        <pre wrap="">rInbe' qo'
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      <pre wrap="">SuStel:
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        <pre wrap="">qo' rInmoHlu'ta'be'
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      <pre wrap="">I can understand that the {qo' rInmoHlu'ta'be'} means "someone didn't
finish the world"; but why doesn't the {rInbe' qo'} mean "the world
isn't finished" ?</pre>
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    <p>It does. But <i>finished</i> can mean "complete, fully created"
      or it can mean "ended," and I think canon has shown it leaning
      more toward the latter sense, so it's what I first thought. What
      you said isn't wrong, but I could only disambiguate based on my
      previous knowledge of the book.<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
SuStel
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