[92348] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] ramwI'mey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qov)
Tue Feb 28 17:13:58 2012
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:09:58 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6032082E995E5@EVS02.ad.uchi
cago.edu>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 13:37 28/02/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
>Qov:
> > I don't think it would be wrong to say ...
> >
> > De'wI'wIj vIlaghtaHvIS bong vIlaghHa'. DaH vagh leQmey vIjomqa'laHbe'.
>
>"While disassembling my computer I accidentally mis-disassembled it.
>Now I cannot re-install five switches."
Exactly my problem. Do' leQ bIng vI'uylaHtaH.
>I'm guessing you're saying that you made a mistake whilst taking
>your computer apart (and now you have 5 extra switches you don't
>know what to do with) using the "do wrongly" meaning of {-Ha'}.
Yeah they're on my dresser. I can't tell if they are broken, or I'm
just missing the right wiggle to get them back into place.
> But can't this be collapsed to:
>
> bong De'wI'wIj vIlaghHa'.
I would read that (without further context) as "I accidentally put my
computer back together" (Like I wasn't supposed to, for some reason).
>I at first understood the "undo" meaning. I took *{laghHa'} to mean
>put back together or reassemble something you had previously taken apart.
I find it hard to interpret laghHa' as other than assemble, hence the
verbiage to try and force you to understand {vIlaghHa'} as
{vIlaghtaHvIS jIQagh}
> (Flashback to the time I had to field strip an M-16 rifle and then
> put it back together again in front of three Marine DI's while in
> Navy Officer Candidate School. Fortunately I managed to do it
> eventually even though I'm generally mechanically inept; at least,
> I wasn't the last to finish!)
majQa'.
- Qov
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