tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 14 18:32:28 2004
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RE: New vocabulary and {law'/puS} variants (HQ 13.1)
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- Subject: RE: New vocabulary and {law'/puS} variants (HQ 13.1)
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:31:41 -0400
ghItlh voragh:
>As usual, Mark Okrand slipped a few new words into his examples without any
>fanfare:
[vIpe']
>{woch} "be tall (in stature)"
> - tlhIngan woch law' tera'ngan woch rap
> - tlhIngan woch law' tera'ngan woch nIb
> "the Klingon is as tall as the Terran"
>
>Ant. {run} "be short (in stature)". Up till some of us have been using
>*{runHa'} while others have made do with {jen} "be high".
I thought that when measure the height of a Klingon one said {tIq}, e.g.
{loS 'uj tIq tlhIngan} "The Klingon is (measures) four uj's"
Now, I gather that {loS 'uj woch tlhIngan} more correct, qar'a'?
-quljIb