[tlhIngan Hol] does the {-ta'} leave room for interpretation for the {-pu'} ?

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 22:34:46 PDT 2020


On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 17:19, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lets approach this differently..
>
> Situation: No hitting has taken place, and all parties involved know this.
>
> I don't want to say: "I did not hit you (and I did it deliberately)"
> I do want to say: "I did not inflict a deliberate hit on you"
>

So what you want to say is "I *would have* inflicted a deliberate hit on
you, were I to have hit you?"

Maybe: {[qaqIpbe' 'ach] qaqIp net jalchugh, qaqIpta'}?

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De'vID
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