[2542] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: naDev jIchu'; English word
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 10:32:50 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 10:14:35 EST
ghItlh charghwI':
> The referred sentence always exists in a specific place in
> time: the penultimate sentence in all the speech in this place
> up to the moment that {'e'} is uttered.
* * *
Did you mean "the last sentence that has been uttered so far"?
If so, you don't want "penultimate": it means "next to last".
(From Latin paene 'almost' + ultimus 'last'. The same prefix
occurs in "peninsula", literally 'almost an island'.)
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
