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Re: chorgh tagh 'uQ'a'?



On Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:14:29 -0800 (PST) SuSvaj 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> At 10:50 AM 12/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >Whilst reading Russian history this week, I found something that could have
> >been uttered by a Klingon.  This is Idiger Khan's response to Ivan the
> >Terrible in 1552 at the siege of Kazan, rejecting the Russian terms of
> >surrender:
> >
> >	chorgh tagh 'uQ'a'?  'Iw HIvje' wItlhutlhrup.
> 
> Shouldn't the second part of this be: "'Iw HIvje'vo' wItlhutlhrup."?  After
> all it's not actually the cup that one is drinking.

Well, I'd either say it as:

'Iw HIvje'vo' matlhutlhrup.

or

HIvje'vo' 'Iw wItlhutlhrup.

See my point?

> SuSvaj
> >
> >-- 
> >Voragh                       
> >Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

charghwI' 'utlh



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