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Re: "under" (was KLBC:Name that Song)

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: "under" (was KLBC:Name that Song)
• Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 10:58:29 -0500

SuStel writes:
>I just noticed: in Conversational Klingon, Okrand says {pa'Daq qaStaH nuq?}
>for "What's happening over there?"  Oops.

TKD says:
[regarding {naDev}, {pa'}, and {Dat}]
>Unlike other nouns, these words are never followed by the locative suffix.
>(Note that {pa'} "thereabouts" and {pa'} "room" are identical in sound;
>{pa'Daq}, however, can mean only "in/to the room".) -- pages 27-28

The phrase in CK is likely the audio equivalent of a typographical error,
gar'a'? ;-) (see TKD addendum 6.4, page 179)

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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