[tlhIngan Hol] One more day

[SuStel]

On 10/10/2017 2:44 PM, André Müller wrote:
> 2017-10-10 20:33 GMT+02:00 mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com>>:
>
>     SuStel:
>     > If someone were to write *Duj Do'a' Do DoHom vIjuv* for /I /
>     /> measure the ship's deceleration/
>     /
>     /
>     /I can'understand this; all I read is "I measure the ship's great
>     speed, speed, lesser speed"/
>     /
>     /
>     /mayqel q/
>
>
> This is also the only thing I am grasping there. It would not make 
> sense to me. It sounds either like a mere list, or like a NNN 
> construction meaning "I measure the lesser speed of the speed of the 
> greater speed of the ship." Neither of which makes sense. Maybe that 
> ship has only 3 speed modes, slow pace, middle pace, and full speed, 
> and I could measure what they are (e.g. half impulse, full impulse, 
> and warp 1).
>
> Interpreting something like "deceleration" into seems like a big 
> stretch. Like linguistic fan fiction.

If Okrand WERE to say "yes, you can generalize what I did with *beyHom 
bey bey'a',*" would you understand it?

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SuStel
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