17 Aug
2017
17 Aug
'17
11:38 a.m.
On 17 August 2017 at 16:40, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
While look at some canon phrases, I stumbled over a phrase from ST5: {yo'SeH yaHnIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH.} "We are receiving a priority message from Operations Command."
I would have said {De' potlh} "important data" here.
Obvious, this is military argot for some high-priority information in a hierarchy where the lowest level is {tu'HomI'raH De'}.
Is this an error, or is it just not much difference between "important data" and "data about something important"?
There's a subtle difference: {potlh De'} is about something important (it's about a *thing*), whereas {De' potlh} is important but not necessarily about *something*. -- De'vID