I appear to be complaining because I believe the Borg will make us completely conform to their customs
In other words, I’m not complaining, I merely appear to be doing so.
I'm not certain that -law' is appropriate for "seem/appear to" in the sense of "give an impression (which I know to be false)". -law' expresses uncertainty about a statement, so {jIbeplaw'} would mean something like "based on the evidence available to me, I believe that I am complaining, but I might not be". It might be more appropriate to say something more like: bepwI' vIDa neH bepwI' vIrur neH bepwI' Ho'DoS rur neH Ho'DoSwIj //loghaD ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 16:21 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Expressing ""
On Apr 17, 2019, at 07:56, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
If instead of a verb, there was a noun, perhaps I could use -qoq; but what can I do when instead of a noun, there is a verb ?
If you’re looking for a non-punctuation, non-prosodic marker, {-law'} isn’t exactly the same as {-qoq} for verbs, but it could work in this particular case, and probably many others: {tIghchaj nubItlhmoHchu' borgh 'e' vIHarmo' jIbeplaw'} I appear to be complaining because I believe the Borg will make us completely conform to their customs In other words, I’m not complaining, I merely appear to be doing so. _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org