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Re: -be'lu' vs. -lu'be'

Lieven L. Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: -be'lu' vs. -lu'be'
• Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:15:08 +0200
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Am Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:51:28 -0500 hat Steven Boozer 
<[email protected]> geschrieben:

> Okrand never actually says this, but I like to think of {tu'lu'} "there 
> is, there are" as a sort of frozen expression or unconjugated autonomous 
> phrase.

It seems to be like that yes, many people think the same way. This comes 
certainly from the fact that the language was made up by an english 
speaking terran!  :-)

> But getting back to Klingon, Okrand ends the section on "Common Errors: 
> The Case of {lu-}" with:

That was the section I was referring to, but I was too lazy to quote it. 
Thank you ;-)

I can live with {tu'lu'} as "there is".

Quvar.

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