tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 12 09:31:33 1997
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Re: KLBC: Klingon CD
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Klingon CD
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 16:04:43 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >We have {Quj} which means "play a game." This would probably be better.
> >{reH} might mean a more general sort of playing, or it might mean an
> >entirely
> >different sort of playing (like playing a musical instrument, or playing a
> >recording).
>
> At the qep'a', Krankor asked MO if he was right in using "reH" for playing
> his guitar (which he did regularly--both playing the guitar AND referring
> to it using "reH", that is). He said he hoped it was right because if it
> wasn't he had nothing else. MO replied that "reH" did *not* mean play in
> the sense of playing a musical instrument (leastways, that's what I
> remember). He didn't volunteer a better word though.
KGT!
"Play an instrument" is handled by {chu'}. (p.74)
Somewhere in the book, I don't remember where, there's a sentence with
something like {reH puq} or {reH puqpu'}, translated as "the child [or
children] plays."
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SuStel
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