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Re: KLBC pawpu' DIS chu'

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC pawpu' DIS chu'
• Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 10:22:08 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>Philip:
>>ben law', qa'mey mIgh ghIj neH Germany Dabbogh nuvpu''e'.
>>Many years ago, Germans wanted to scare away evil spirits.

'ISqu':
>*qa'pu'* mIgh ghIj *luneH* Germany *luDabbogh* nuvpu''e'.
>
>I believe MO once explained (in TKW?) that spirits are treated as sentient 
>beings, which means that the noun {qa'} takes the {-pu'} plural suffix.

lughqu' 'ISqu':

   ghe'torvo' narghDI' qa'pu'
   when spirits escape from Gre'thor  KGT

"Note that the word for 'spirit', {qa'}, takes the plural suffix {-pu'}, 
which is used for beings capable of using language. Spirits do 
speak."  [KGT 117]




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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