[89399] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: 'abghachlI' yIngu'!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Sep 2 14:46:40 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:41:45 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20110902102815.07eb4ad8@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
All the known examples of {'ab} "have a length of, measure" have been with {'uj} (unit of linear measure ca. 35 cm.):
wej 'ujmey 'ab 'oy'naQ
Painstiks are a little over one meter long S32
jav 'ujmey 'ab SuvwI'
the warrior has a length of six ujs (st.k)
the warrior stands six ujs
the warrior is six ujs tall. (st.k 10/22/97)
vagh 'ujmey vI'ab
I have a length of five ujs
I'm five ujs tall. (st.k)
wej 'uj 'ab naQjej
the spear has a length of three uj
the spear measures three uj
the spear is three uj long (st.k)
loSmaH jav vI' Soch loS 'uj 'ab meH
Bridge Height: 16.28 M. (KBoP)
HIvtaHvIS toQDuj cha'vatlh wejmaH Soch vI' vagh chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH
Attack Formation Height: 82.75 M. (KBoP)
qughtaHvIS toQDuj HutmaH vI' jav wa' 'uj 'ab 'oH
Cruise Formation Height: 31.56 M. (KBoP)
SaqtaHvIS toQDuj wa'vatlh loS vI' jav chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH
Landing Formation Height: 36.46 M. (KBoP)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org] On Behalf
> Of Robyn Stewart
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 12:40 PM
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Subject: Re: 'abghachlI' yIngu'!
>
> At 10:05 02/09/2011, you wrote:
> >chay'? 'abghachwI'vaD loghqam qelI'qam je' vIlo'be'.
>
> 'abghachwI'vaD? chay' mu'vetlh vIpoj DaneH?
>
> Either you have put two type-9 verb suffixes on the same verb, or you
> have used the possessive pronoun reserved for language-using beings
> to possess your "measureness". I'm assuming the latter because I
> can't parse the former at all, and that you have accidentally used
> -wI' because YOU are a person and you want to describe your own height.
>
> vagh vI' wa' loS 'uj vI'ab.
>
> 1.19 x 10^-16 loghqam vI'ab
>
> pagh vI' pagh pagh pagh vagh qelI'qam vI'ab.
>
> But light years and qeliqams are unusual units for personal measurements.
>
> Note also that the conjunction is je. je' means feed or buy.
>
> - Qov
>
>
>
