tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 13 06:56:42 1998
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Re: KLBC:have
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC:have
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:56:21 -0500
At 10:03 AM 4/12/98 -0700, Qov wrote:
>At 07:50 98-04-12 -0700, QomwI' wrote:
>}Qov and others,
>}
>}I'm trying to write something about my family and relatives and I came
>}across this problem: how to say "I have one brother/two sisters/three
>}daughters etc." Can I use {ghaj}-"have, possess"? They're not my private
>}property after all,
>
[...]
>I don't know what Marc Okrand was thinking when he wrote that, but I expect
>it was just to clarify which meaning of "have" {ghaj} carries. I don't
>object to {jup vIghaj} {puq vIghaj} {puqloD vIghaj}. It's possible that
>Klingons don't say it, byut if they have an alternate idiom, we don't know it.
>
If you don't like the connotation of 'have', you could just avoid it with
a phrase like {qorDu'wIjDaq SoS vav cha' be'nI'pu' je tu'lu'}.
-- ter'eS
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