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Re: possession vs. ghaj

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 


>From: <[email protected]>
> >As someone else pointed out, "Quch Hab ghaj SoSlI'" may refer to a scalp
> >that your mother has kept as a trophy -- certainly not an insult. Whereas
> >"Hab SoSlI' Quch" most definitely refers to "your mother's forehead
> >
> >it can be a separate forehead as a trophy too, can't it, and not the one of
> >her own body?  then all of the objections against using {ghaj} would also
> >apply to this noun-noun possessive, i think.  they're both applicable and
> >equally ambiguous.

SuStel:
>Indeed.
>Your mother's forehead, the one she keeps in the trophy case, is smooth.

Or maybe it's a cast of her forehead which you keep for sentimental 
reasons.  <g>

In TNG "Parallels" Worf displayed such a cast of his son's forehead given 
him by Alexander as a birthday present, proclaiming proudly:  "The ridges 
of a warrior!"  (There's a still from this scene on p.28 of KGT.)



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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