[tlhIngan Hol] how to express "look forward to"
Will Martin
willmartin2 at mac.com
Thu Apr 25 09:26:12 PDT 2019
This is all good.
Just to offer another version...
Ode to a finished series:
HaSta much <<Discovery>> vItIvchu’pu’. Discovery qaq law’ Hoch latlh qaq puS. DaH rIntaHmo’ Discovery HaStawIj vItIvlaHbe’. vIychorgh Hutlhbogh naH’e’ rur. lI’be’choH.
charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan
rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 8:45 AM, Jeffrey Clark <jmclark85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Slight recasting of the thought, but my attempt:
>
> rInmo’ Discovery. DaHjaj HaSta much vIbejbogh tu’lu’be’.
>
> “Because DIS is finished, there is nothing to watch today.”
>
> But this misses the conveyance of the sense of “anticipation” that has been lost; but perhaps adding something like:
>
> vIbejmeH pagh neHbogh tu’lu’mo’, jISeybe’. [jISeyHa’, tell us how you really feel…]
>
> “Because there is nothing that I want to watch, I’m unexcited.”
>
> Hmmm…
>
> rIn Discovery, Hasta much vIbejmeH DaHjaj pagh vIneHbogh tu’lu’. vaj jISeybe’.
>
> —jevreH
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 08:01, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com <mailto:de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 13:27, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>> On 4/25/2019 3:40 AM, De'vID wrote:
>>> My first thought was something along the lines of:
>>> {DaH rInpu'mo' DISqa'vI'rIy, Dach much vI[X]bogh}, where X = "anticipate, look forward to", but we don't seem to have such a verb.
>> Tangent:
>>
>> Since rIn is be finished, not finish, shouldn't the first part be DaH rInmo' DISqa'vI'rIy? The being finished is not completed; it remains finished. rIntaH, you might say.
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>>
>> Yes, I think you're probably right.
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>> --
>> De'vID
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