<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Wow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is mind-bending.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How did I not notice this word earlier? It’s a negative “to be” verb that isn’t a pronoun.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can use it adjectivally, which you can’t really do with {‘oHbe’}, which is probably why it exists. You can use it as a stative verb… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">… ahhh, but the implications…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While {ruv ‘en} means “injustice” or “non-justice”, {‘en ruv} likely suggests that justice does not exist, since it’s not saying “This/It/[Any specific noun] is not justice.” It’s saying, “Justice isn’t.” “Justice does not be."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{ruv ‘enmoH noHwI’vam}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This judge is unjust (he causes justice to not be.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oooooo. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{‘enbe’ ruv.}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Justice exists. Justice does not not be. It may not always happen or happen everywhere, but the condition of there not being any justice anywhere, forever, does not exist.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And variations on the perfective…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wow.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course, that’s merely my best guess, based on the incomplete, imperfect gloss...</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 14, 2021, at 8:55 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 4/14/2021 7:56 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">< ruv 'en > jIjatlhchugh, vaj "injustice" jIjatlh'a'?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">mughpu'ghachvam vIlaj.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">SuStel<br class=""><a href="http://trimboli.name" class="">http://trimboli.name</a><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>