tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 20 16:56:39 1998
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Re: RE: Coffee is ready
ja' charghwI':
>This is merely a suggestion for another way to say, "It is
>ready," referring to coffee:
>
>tlhutlhbeHlu'.
>
>If this prompts discussion, fine.
I understand exactly what you're doing here, and I won't argue against it.
But I sure won't use this construction myself anytime soon. It's just as
ambiguously reasonable as {jIbwIj vISay'nISmoH}, but the {-lu'} makes it
fuzzy enough in my brain that I will avoid it.
-- ghunchu'wI'