tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 09 06:47:54 1995
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Re: Re PetaQ
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 18:16:53 -0400
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: [email protected]
>I have made a decission based on the facts.
>A: If Mr.(or is it Dr.) Okrand will not respond to me directlly then I must
>accept your word.
That's big of you.
>B: What I ment by asking correction was if you agreed that "be'taH" could be
>veiwed as "Negative woman".
OK. I thought we answered this as well (are you insisting on confirmation,
or asking?) As a single word, "be'taH" is incorrect, since be' is a noun
and "taH" is a verb or verb-suffix, and we have no evidence of productive
compounding of nouns with verbs or verb-suffixes.
As two words, I think I would accept "be' taH" as "woman at a negative
angle", but frankly I haven't a clue what you mean by "negative woman" (one
made of antimatter?) If you want to use it as a noun + adjectival verb
construction to describe a woman who is, say, lying head-downwards on a
ramp, then yes, I'd say it's legitimate. I can't really see any other
meaning for it.
>C: Does anyone have an address where Mr. Okrand can be reached? I need it for
>a request that has to do with my school's Sci-Fi club(founded by yours
>truely) and it's interest in tlhIngan Hol.
You might try seeing if Lawrence can relay messages. I'm not sure of
Dr. Okrand's policy regarding giving out his address.
~mark