tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 08 16:40:14 2000
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RE: ghIqtal
> >> I saw "to the death" and immediately thought of {ghIqtal}:
> >> {vuD Dajatlhbogh vInaDHa', 'ach ?ghIqtal? vuDlIj DajatlhmeH
> >> DIb vIHub.}
> >>
> >> Alas, I looked up {ghIqtal} in KGT and saw that it was an
> >> "archaic exclamation", not an adverbial.
>
> DloraH:
> > Read KGT p49.
> >
> > Suvchu' - fight to the death
> > etc.
> >
> > You might be able to work this in.
>
> There's also a novel use of the suffix <-neS> in KGT for just this sort of
> thing. <HubneS> works quite well for "defend to the death". You
> may not have
> gotten to use <ghIqtal>, but <-neS> is rare enough that using it should
> still be an exciting event, especially like this.
>
> pagh 'utlh
KGT p49
-neS implies suicide
While I'm in the Army waiting to fight for peoples' consitutional rights, I
certainly use -chu', not -neS. With -chu', it could be your own death, but
you hope it's the other guy. I'm prepared to Suvchu' for your freedom of
speech; I'm not quite prepared to SuvneS or HubneS (at least not until I'm
older and about to go into retirement, like qenq, qolotlh, and qor.
DloraH