[Tlhingan-hol] qep'a' Proverbs

[Robyn Stewart]

Yes, it's discover, observe, find, when you weren't specifically searching for that item. I'm totally happy with that usage.

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From: De'vID [mailto:de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com] 
Sent: July 27, 2014 11:10
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Cc: Robyn Stewart
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qep'a' Proverbs

Qov:
> I was talking to Marc about a t-shirt Ethan (Sepram puqloD) was 
> wearing, giving the dates of Pluto's existence as a planet. I started 
> to read it in Klingon and realised that while I could give the dates 
> of an institution by saying tera' DIS 1930 cherlu', "It was founded in 
> 1930"  I couldn't say tera' DIS 1930 tu'lu' "It was discovered in 1930" because the usage tu'lu'
> for "there is" blocks it. I'd have to say tera' DIS 1930 tu' <pong>. 
> (But I didn't know who discovered Pluto).

{tera' DIS 1930 tu' vay'}?

But is {tu'} even the right verb for "discover" in the sense of bringing to knowledge a thing which was previously unknown? Pluto obviously existed before, during, and after 1930. {Pluto tu'lu', tera'
DIS 1930 'e' luSovchoH tera'nganpu'}

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