tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 20 23:03:19 2001
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Re: I had an idea, I don't know how...
Will:
> Basically, if it makes sense, any verb suffix works on pronouns if they
> are being used as pronouns.
<<Qu'vam potlh law' Hoch potlh puS - SoHghachna'lIj yItaHchu'>>
> Meanwhile, {nuq tlhIHchu'} doesn't make much sense unless you are talking
> to beings incapable of using language.
Cool distraction, tho!
> Perhaps {'Iv tlhIHchu'} was what you had in mind.
Yes.
> Even that looks a bit strange. Maybe this can be stretched to mean
> "Exactly who are you?" though I'd prefer to say that more directly, like
> {pengu'eghchu'!} "Identify yourselves perfectly/clearly!"
Sounds good; except that the command was to a single person, to speak for
the whole group. Perhaps, in context, <<ghaHvaD yaHraj teH yIQIj>>.
Jiri
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