tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 22 18:13:24 1997
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Re: The Unknown PK sentence -- At Last!
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The Unknown PK sentence -- At Last!
- Date: 22 Aug 97 21:11:16 EDT
ghItlh voragh
>Though {pegh} is glossed in TKD as "keep something secret," Okrand seems to
>use it for "be secret" as well. Cf. the line from the jitney scene in CK:
>
> Daqvam nuq? What is this place?
> pegh De'vetlh. That is classified information.
> (i.e. "That information is secret.")
>
>Translating this as "That information keeps (something) secret" is
>nonsense. And if this were actually the noun {pegh}, then the copula is
>missing -- you would expect {pegh 'oH De'vetlh'e'} "That information is a
>secret." Unless it's another dialect of course. {{;-)
As I look over my initial message, I realize that I shouldn't have said "new."
It just came in my mind at the same time.
>It sounds like Okrand put all of his post-TKD notes into the new book,
>which I still haven't seen. Is there another entry for {pegh} in the KGT
>glossary?
Nope. But he does seem to be making a lot more new entries for verbs that are
*already* verbs. For instance, now, {chu'} has three different meanings, all as
a verb. Of course, one's an adjectival verb, but that's not too important.
tugh paq yISuq! tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'vaD 'utchu'.
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