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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] -Ha' on adverbs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Wed Sep 5 09:12:05 2012

From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Klingonteacher <levinius@gmx.de>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
 <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:11:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <50474BB5.9090107@gmx.de>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

ghItlhta' Quvar,
> I think that would be understandable, right? Even in english "un-soon"
> is quite close to "late".

I'd interpret =ABtughHa'=BB as referring to a future event (relative to the=
 setting); basically the equivalent of =ABpoH nI' pIq=BB.
For "not answering sooner", I might recommend something like =ABjIjangta'pa=
' jImImtaH=BB.
________________________________________
From: Klingonteacher [levinius@gmx.de]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 14:55
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] -Ha' on adverbs

ghItlh QeS 'utlh:
> As Qov said, Marc basically implied that -Ha' is *grammatically* legal
> on any adverb, but for some it's semantically nonsensical. It was

I just wrote an email starting with "sorry for not answering sooner" and
I wrote {tughHa' jIjangmo' jItlhIj}.

I think that would be understandable, right? Even in english "un-soon"
is quite close to "late".

Lieven.


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