[Tlhingan-hol] New Canon - King John Shakespeare

[Qov]

At 15:12 '?????' 3/20/2012, you wrote:
> > TKD 5.4 yIlaDqa'. Following a verb it has the trivializing effect 
> you > describe. Following a noun it means "only, alone," and works 
> here.' While that's the gloss, it seems to me that all the 
> canonical examples give it a trivializing effect. ...possibly with 
> the exception of <quv Hutlhbogh jagh neH> and <qoHpu' neH> in some 
> TKW vIttlheghmey. Those are all negative, but that may be purely coincidental.

I haven't picked up that sense from canaon, and even so, here's a 
canonical example showing that it was a coincidence, because this 
certainly does not have that connotation.

> > I see {pagh teHqu'} as a similar to paghna'.  Note the back > 
> translation "very true[ly] nothing."   So the subject of the 
> sentence > is a "very true nothing." Ah, I didn't realize first 
> that those back-translations were the "official" ones. Strikes me 
> an example of an overly literal translation, but I suppose it's not 
> terribly far-fetched. > But note that it's in the context of the 
> previous sentence which > establishes what, in this case is doing 
> the jev-ing, and therefore > may not be obvious out of context.

>True, but in this case it's the atmosphere, so it'd seem to be valid.

ghaytan vIghov jIH. jIHojtaH neH.

- Qov