tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 13 10:40:03 1996
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Re: jInajpu'
>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 05:06:12 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
> >From: ur-valhalla!netusa1.net!caanders (Alan Anderson)
> >Subject: jInajpu'
> >Message-ID: <v01520d03ae82075ca69e@[205.139.170.201]>
> >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:11:02 -0700
> >peHruS writes:
> >>"word arrangement" 'oH mu' {mu'morgh}'e'
> >nuqjatlh? nuqjatlh jay'?
>In hindsight I understood it.
> >>"The book TKD often uses the word {morgh} in a different word."
> >"often"?! I find three occurrences of the *syllable* {morgh}:
> >{may'morgh} "battle array", {rejmorgh} "worrywart" and {morgh}
> >"protest". "Battle array" is clothing. "Worrywart" is a person.
> >"Protest" is a verb. >From which of these do you extract the meaning
> >"arrangement"?
>>From this, I can comprehend where peHruS has interpreted {*morgh} as "array,
>arrangement, disposition." I also have a list of (for lack of a better term)
FWIW, I've had success expressing "word-order" using *verb* constructions,
saying "tlha'Ha'chuq mu'mey" for "the word-order is wrong" and
"tlha'chuqchu' mu'mey" for the "word-order is right." Presumably you could
also do "jaS tlha'chuqnIS mu'meylIj" or "jaS tlha'chuqchugh mu', qayaj."
~mark