[92019] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] wutlh Ha'DIbaH jaj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Feb 3 11:30:18 2012
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:53 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhIngan Hol <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C17419@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 2/3/2012 11:16 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
>>> pawpu' poH tujchoH jajmey.
>> This is difficult to parse, although I know what you mean. I might
>> say
>
> I'm also skeptical towards using paw to refer to periods of time.
> While one could regard a season as an event, and events seem to be
> okay as locations (consider may'meyDajvo' Haw'be' tlhIngan and
> may'Daq jaHDI' SuvwI' juppu'Daj lonbe'), it seems like a bit of a
> stretch to me. Recall that in Klingon, -Daq and -vo' refer only to
> spatial relations, not more abstract concepts (such as "in Klingon"
> or "in love and war"), and not to points in time (such as "QISmaS jaj
> vaghDIchDaq jIHvaD nob ngeH bangna'wI': VAAAAAAAGH QEEEEEEEBMEEEEY
> WAAAAAGH!"*). It does not seem unlikely that this would extend also
> to verbs describing spatial changes; a jaj does not paw, nor does it
> mej, nor is it ever Sum or Hop (except perhaps in poetry).
wa'Hu' ram Steven Pinker paq, "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a
Window into Human Nature," vIlaDchoHpu'. poH wanI' joq DIyajmeH, Daq
Doch joq lo' yabmaj 'e' QIj. ram Hol lo'lu'bogh; mIwvam lo' Hol
lo'laHbogh Hoch Human.
'ach pImbej tlhIngan yab Human yab je. chaq yabchajDaq pIm wanI'mey
Daqmey Dochmey je.
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