tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 28 18:03:27 1995
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Re: Kruge's quote
- From: [email protected] (David Barron)
- Subject: Re: Kruge's quote
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 18:03:22 -0700
At 01:54 PM 4/28/95 -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> "Who I am is not important - that I have them is."
>
>The first sentence doesn't seem to me to need any more than
>
> potlhbe' pongwIj.
>
>Although I struggled for some time with the second part, and the best I could
>come up with was
>
> potlhqu'bej qama'pu'wIj.
>
>which doesn't quite convey the intended meaning. I like your recasting . . .
>qatlho'qa'neS.
>
I hope I am not stepping on the feet of the grammarians but <potlh> is
a noun. Here its being treated as a verb. I have made this mistake
myself, that is how I know , that and checking TKD.
May I suggest instead of <potlh> let me suggest <ram>.
Thus you can say < ram pongwIj >
David Barron
>-marqoS
>--
>Mark J. Reed
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