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Re: Duytvoqtah - hui wat fuern tach!

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Duytvoqtah - hui wat fuern tach!
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:36:50 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Quvar:
>>They sing altogther
>>    Duj tIvoqtaH,
>>    Duj tIvoqtaH,
>>    Duj tIvoqtaH,

SuStel:
>I'm not sure what you're discussing here, but shouldn't that be /Duj 
>yIvoqtaH/ "(Continuously) trust instincts"?  /Duj/ "instincts" is one of 
>those "inherently plural" words.  /Duj tIvoqtaH/ can only mean 
>"(Continuously) trust ships."

Not exactly.  {Duj} is tricky:

   Duj tIvoqtaH
   Always trust your instincts. TKD

   DujlIj yIvoq
   Trust your instincts. TKW

This discrepancy was explained in TKW (p. 27):

   ... it is grammatically correct to treat it as singular (a bundle or
   collection of instincts) or plural (individual instincts). {Duj} also
   means "ship" or "vessel", so a possible interpretation of the aphorism
   is "trust your ship".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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