tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 08 18:33:07 1998

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Re: Translation program



At 11:04 98-04-08 -0700, SuSvaj wrote:
}At 06:00 PM 4/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
}>At 15:30 98-04-06 -0700, lot'Har wrote:
}>} greetings, SuSvaj!
}>}
}>}>nuvpu'lIj chaH'a' HuD nuvpu''e'
}>
}>The original says: "the mountain people are your people," 
}
}Actually, it says: "Are the hill people your people?"  It's a question.

lugh SuSvaj.  vIlaDHa'.

}with a suffix
}>error: it should be {nuvpu'lI'} for "your people."  Beats me what that means.
}
}I used the lIj suffix because a "people", as in a race, is usually treated
}as an inanimate object in language.  My mistake, I should have used "Segh"
}here.  

yaj.

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