[tlhIngan Hol] Sentence as object using {'oH}
Lieven
levinius at gmx.de
Thu Aug 24 08:49:11 PDT 2017
> On 8/24/2017 10:34 AM, Lieven wrote:
>> quSDaq bIba'. Thanks for making this addition. That's the obvious
>> thing I had in mind, but did not write down.
Am 24.08.2017 um 16:55 schrieb SuStel:
> Careful! I don't think you intended this, but *quSDaq ba'* has the
> connotation of disparaging the listener. It's the Klingon equivalent of
> rolling your eyes and saying, "Well, duh!"
I surely did not intend this. But it's true that I wanted to point at
something obvious. Just without rolling my eyes. So more like "That's
obvious what you said" or "of course you're right".
Actually, I didn't know (or remember) it was so negative.
HIvqa' veqlargh.
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Lieven L. Litaer
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