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Re: Streets and Ends

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Streets and Ends
• Date: Fri, 27 May 94 16:23:53 EDT

>How do you say "A person who avoids work and seeks to live off others?"
>How about "vumqangbe'bogh nuv; vummo' latlhpu' yIn 'e' nIDbogh nuv"?  Maybe
>you can "'ej" together the relative clauses.  If you want to cast that as
>"person without honor", that could be "batlh ghajbe'bogh nuv" or
>"quvHa'bogh nuv".

Why even use {nuv}? It's {batlh ghajbe'wI'}. Of course, to more accurately
express the true nature of what English speakers call a "bum", it could be
{vumQo'wI'}.

>~mark


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