[87279] in tlhIngan-Hol
Double negatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blake.turner@yotes.collegeofidaho.)
Mon Nov 30 08:47:37 2009
From: <blake.turner@yotes.collegeofidaho.edu>
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:44:14 -0700
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Is there a canon stance regarding the use of double negatives in tlhIngan Hol? I haven't been able to find any references to this in TKD or elsewhere. (But if cursing is a fine art, then I can't imagine many tlhInganpu' would be adverse to the theatricality of adding as many as a sentence could bear.)
For example:
{not batlhHa' bIHeghbe'jaj} "May you never die dishonorably."
{not bong jIjatlhbe'jaj} "May I never speak by accident."
Does this usage of {not} render the {-be'-} redundant or is this suffix still necessary? {not batlhHa' bIHeghjaj} somehow sounds incomplete to me.
nuq vuDmeyraj?
~toQ
