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Re: imperative with VS9 (-bogh)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: imperative with VS9 (-bogh)
• Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:18:41 EDT

In a message dated 2004-10-01 7:00:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> What is {QIn yIleghbogh ngeHpu' vavwI'} supposed to mean?  Every time I try
> to translate it into intelligible English, it comes out the same way I'd
> translate {QIn ngeHpu'bogh vavwI' yIlegh}.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 

It's pretty much the same thing.  In English the q.v. is used parenthetically 
as a reference to further information, and maybe the Klingon version has (or 
can have) the same sense.  In your rephrasing the emphasis shifts from "QIn 
ngeHpu' vavwI'" to "QIn yIlegh".


lay'tel SIvten

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