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RE: Haiku attempt/KLBC

• From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Haiku attempt/KLBC
• Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:33:45 -0700

jIjatlh:

> I first read the second line as <SuvchuqtaHvIS 
> SuvwI'pu'>, but that was just my brain getting
> ahead of my eyes.

jang De'vID. jatlh:

> muj'a' <Suv"chuq"taHvIS SuvwI'pu'>?  If it had been 
> <-chuq> instead of <-chu'>, would it have been 
> grammatically incorrect?

Both are correct. <SuvchuqtaHvIS> does make the distinction that the
warriors are fighting against one another rather than on the same side, but
that was obvious from context anyway.


pagh
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