[tlhIngan Hol] One more day
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Oct 10 11:54:12 PDT 2017
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
http://trimboli.name
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