tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 12 20:47:24 1997
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Re: BG...Noun construction
Alan Anderson wrote:
>
> Dennis Orosz writes:
> >Hegh SuS'a'wI
> >which I'm hoping could/would be translated as "Death Wind"...
>
> I read it as "my major (sentient) wind dies." Not quite what you wanted, eh?
>
> I'd call it something like {HoHbogh SuS'a'} "gale which kills."
> Don't force yourself to use nouns when verbs do a better job.
One of the ships in my Quadrant in KAG is the Death Wind; I suggested to
them long ago that the noun-noun construction {Hegh SuS} works just
fine. (I do suspect that the "Death Wind" the ship is named after
refers to a condition the Captain experiences after eating {vIno'va'
qurgh} and drinking {romuluS HIq}....)
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