<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 00:08, Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Remember that Worf told us, “Klingons may be inaccurate, but they are never approximate.”</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As others have pointed out, just because there's a stereotype about a *culture* doesn't mean that you can't say things in the *language* of that culture which go against that stereotype. The discussion here isn't about what a hypothetical Klingon might say instead of what I had wanted to say. It's about how to express what I had wanted to say in the Klingon language (whether or not a stereotype Klingon would be inclined to say the same thing).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>I honestly believe that “Almost a year ago” is vague and adds very little to the sentence. {qaSpu’. Daqaw’a’?} {qaSpu’ ‘ej vIlIjQo’!} The significance is not that it’s almost a year ago. The significance is that it happened, and you have not forgotten it. How will having it be a year ago add meaning to the occurrence when that time threshold occurs? You are assuming a significance to the concept of an anniversary that may be gibberish to a Klingon.</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Okay, so nobody has to assume anything, because what I said took place in an actual conversation. Here's the context: I was telling someone about a death that occurred almost a year ago, where it is understood that the period leading up to the anniversary is significant in the deceased person's culture. Stating that the death occurred "almost a year ago" (but not exactly a year ago, or just a little bit more than a year ago) was specifically important *in the context of this particular conversation*. <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Whatever view you may think a hypothetical Klingon might have on the significance or insignificance of anniversaries, that an event happened "almost a year ago" is specifically important in the context of the conversation I was having. You're arguing about an answer to a different question than the one I asked.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>