tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 22 10:52:15 1995
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ghItlh Soqra'tIS:
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...But {vavoy}, Terran women are so.... fragile. [*wink*] >}}};-)
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ps, I did try to say that in Hol, but I couldn't figure out "fragile". :-(
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chel ~mark:
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rotlhHa'? rotlhbe'? puj?
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'a ghorlaHqu' tera'ngan be', vavoy!
I also thought of ghorrup , but that would suggest that Terran
women are ready to break (themselves), as an intentional action,
which is not the idea you want.
I'm assuming that the gloss of ghor, "break", is intransitive (as
in "the captive's fingers break") rather than transitive (as in "I
break the captive's fingers"). I hope I haven't overlooked any
canon that contradicts this assumption, because if ghor means
intransitive-"break" we can easily express transitive-"break" with
the causative suffix:
ghor qama' nItlhDu' intransitive
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qama' nItlhDu' vIghormoH transitive
-- but there's no convenient way to do the reverse if ghor
means transitive-"break".
- tlhIngan veQbeq la'Hom marqem
Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'!
Mark A. Mandel
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