[tlhIngan Hol] Clarification on SIch

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Sun Apr 21 09:54:41 PDT 2019


On 4/21/2019 12:21 PM, De'vID wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 18:29, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>
>     The correct sense of /reach/ in the Dictionary.com definition is
>     number 3: "to succeed in touching or seizing with an outstretched
>     hand, a pole, etc." This is what Okrand describes *SIch* as
>     meaning. It's not clear to me whether it could also mean sense 5:
>     "to stretch or extend so as to touch or meet"; can we say *'aqroS
>     SIch yorghmey*/The bookcase reaches the ceiling?/
>
>
> The season 2 finale of Star Trek: Discovery has this spoken line:
> "We will wade knee-deep through the ruin of our enemies."
> {tugh mayIttaHvIS qIvDu'maj SIch jaghpu'ma' pIgh.}
>
> Now, this sentence was (probably) not written by Okrand. But it's Star 
> Trek canon, and it's reasonably good Klingon, so I think (at least in 
> L'Rell's dialect) this means that {SIch} can also have 
> Dictionary.com's sense 5.

That's not how we define Okrandian canon round these parts, so I'm 
leaving the jury out on that.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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