[93762] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Time and Type 7 verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qov)
Sun Jun 17 11:26:50 2012
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:25:45 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4FDDF554.4010106@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 09:18 '?????' 6/17/2012, you wrote:
>>The biggest change I can think of was when a word we'd never seen
>>before got edited out because the meaning was conveyed perfectly
>>using already known vocabulary. The word did appear elsewhere in the
>>text with more nuanced meaning, and it turned out to be a perfect
>>answer to another ambiguity we pointed out, so we didn't feel guilty
>>about removing its first appearance.
>
>You deleted a totally new *synonym*?! Poor Voragh.
It was {ngIq}. It was used in a few places, and we recognized it as
having a meaning something to do with individual, taken one at a
time, ("unique" qawmoH) but in one place we couldn't figure out what
it was doing that Hoch didn't do. We asked Marc. He said something to
the effect of "if Hoch works there, put that." And so we did.
- Qov
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