[Tlhingan-hol] ramwI'mey

[Qov]

At 13:37 28/02/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:

>Qov:
> > I don't think it would be wrong to say ...
> >
> > De'wI'wIj vIlaghtaHvIS bong vIlaghHa'. DaH vagh leQmey vIjomqa'laHbe'.
>
>"While disassembling my computer I accidentally mis-disassembled it. 
>Now I cannot re-install five switches."

Exactly my problem. Do' leQ bIng vI'uylaHtaH.

>I'm guessing you're saying that you made a mistake whilst taking 
>your computer apart (and now you have 5 extra switches you don't 
>know what to do with) using the "do wrongly" meaning of {-Ha'}.

Yeah they're on my dresser. I can't tell if they are broken, or I'm 
just missing the right wiggle to get them back into place.

>  But can't this be collapsed to:
>
>   bong De'wI'wIj vIlaghHa'.

I would read that (without further context) as "I accidentally put my 
computer back together" (Like I wasn't supposed to, for some reason).

>I at first understood the "undo" meaning.  I took *{laghHa'} to mean 
>put back together or reassemble something you had previously taken apart.

I find it hard to interpret laghHa' as other than assemble, hence the 
verbiage to try and force you to understand {vIlaghHa'} as 
{vIlaghtaHvIS jIQagh}

>  (Flashback to the time I had to field strip an M-16 rifle and then 
> put it back together again in front of three Marine DI's while in 
> Navy Officer Candidate School.  Fortunately I managed to do it 
> eventually even though I'm generally mechanically inept; at least, 
> I wasn't the last to finish!)

majQa'.

- Qov