[99261] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qep'a' Proverbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Sun Jul 27 11:10:10 2014
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:09:48 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
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Qov:
> I was talking to Marc about a t-shirt Ethan (Sepram puqloD) was wearing,
> giving the dates of Pluto's existence as a planet. I started to read it in
> Klingon and realised that while I could give the dates of an institution by
> saying tera' DIS 1930 cherlu', "It was founded in 1930" I couldn't say
> tera' DIS 1930 tu'lu' "It was discovered in 1930" because the usage tu'lu'
> for "there is" blocks it. I'd have to say tera' DIS 1930 tu' <pong>. (But I
> didn't know who discovered Pluto).
{tera' DIS 1930 tu' vay'}?
But is {tu'} even the right verb for "discover" in the sense of
bringing to knowledge a thing which was previously unknown? Pluto
obviously existed before, during, and after 1930. {Pluto tu'lu', tera'
DIS 1930 'e' luSovchoH tera'nganpu'}
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