Am 21.03.2019 um 20:51 schrieb nIqolay Q:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:26 PM Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de {wa'leS} is in respect to today only
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Thanks for this note.
Okrand's explanation suggests that the "number + time periods ago/from now" timestamps have some flexibility regarding what moment they're in reference to. It seems reasonable that, in the right context, *wa'leS* could be used to mean "the next day".
Nevertheless, I think this rule (if it is one) should not be over-stretched, and since you mention context, it should be used like that only in time travel. So this basically means that {Hu'} means not only "days ago" but also "days before". I don't know if Okrand thought about the ambiguity he created. {wejHu' targh vIwam. wa'Hu' tangqa' vIwam.} When did I hunt the tangka? yesterday or four days ago? Going back to my original message: I wanted to point out that "depending of context", which is is the usual situation of making the utterance, so, NOW, then the word {wa'leS} means "tomorrow" and should be preferred over "the next day". But maybe that's just a writing style? The more I think about it, you could also regard this more scientifically: x-leS = x days from now = now + x times 24 hours. So taken exactly, {wa'leS} after now is tomorrow the same time of now. {jaj veb} starts tomorrow morning, so can be earlier. This example gets stronger using the word {nem} "years from now". {wa'nem} is 22.03.2020 but {DIS veb} starts on 01.01.2020 Is it not? -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/TimeVocabulary