tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 13 15:15:22 1997
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Re: originality of "jatlhchuqghach"
- From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: originality of "jatlhchuqghach"
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:22:27 -0500
> >Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 05:31:54 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >By the way, -egh and -chuq are very good words for -ghach. How about
another
> >interesting one that I -know- I thought up? "ghob'eghghach" "civil
war."
>
> Hmm. But that sounds like someone taking weapons against his own body.
> People are fighting one another in a civil war, right? I suppose you're
> trying to say that the single country is fighting itself, but it's more
> that the country has split into factions. Could be room for disagreement
> on this one.
>
> ~mark
I think you've hit on it. The key word there is "faction". Perhaps
*tlhach noH* would be a more precise way of saying "civil war".
SuSvaj