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Re: KLBC: -chugh -bogh



: Other thing: {lab} can mean "call" for terran telephone use?
: 
: Edy

I'll leave the grammar for the BG or her {lIw}, but here are a couple of
alternatives to {lab}, which tends to be used on the list for posting email
or uploading computer files: 

Qum  "communicate"
 - naDev bIQumqa' 'e' vItul. (MO on MSN BBS 11/96) 
 - jIQum "I communicate." (STC Klingon Language Studies)

rI'  "hail" (cf. rI'Se' "hailing frequency")

{HIrI'} "Hail me!" seems to work best for "Call (phone) me!"  You could say
something like {yIQum ghogh HablI' Dalo'taHvIS} "Communicate using a
telephone!" but although more precise, it's a bit clumsy.

Voragh



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