[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing ""

Daniel Dadap daniel at dadap.net
Wed Apr 17 07:38:33 PDT 2019



On Apr 17, 2019, at 09:30, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:

>> I appear to be complaining because I believe the Borg will make us completely conform to their customs
>> 
>> In other words, I’m not complaining, I merely appear to be doing so.
> 
> I'm not certain that -law' is appropriate for "seem/appear to" in the sense of "give an impression (which I know to be false)".
> 
> -law' expresses uncertainty about a statement, so {jIbeplaw'} would mean something like "based on the evidence available to me, I believe that I am complaining, but I might not be".

Yeah, immediately after sending that, I thought to myself that {-law'} is more like {-Hey} and probably doesn’t really work for this use, after all.



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