tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 09:12:52 1998
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Re: WORDS (ridges etc)
>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:28:50 -0800 (PST)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Date: Sunday, February 01, 1998 4:29 AM
>Subject: Re: WORDS (ridges etc)
>
>
>>I never before considered such constructions as gheghwI'Du'. Being part of
>>debates on this listserv has caused me to reread our source materials many
>>times. This can be very revealing.
>
>There may not BE a word for ridges, or it may be a word we have not yet
>learned. You should consider using {ghegh} as a verb only.
>
>'IH QuchDaj ghegh.
>Her rough forehead is beautiful.
cf. the brilliant poem opposite the frontispiece of the KLI's Hamlet,
translated by a handsome Grammarian from an original by Ben Jonson:
naDev qonwI' qab'e' Dalegh
*SeQpIr* qab 'IHmoH QuchDaj ghegh...
~mark