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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ret

De'vID ([email protected]) 

<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Gaerfindel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>On 12/1/2012 11:32 AM, De&#39;vID wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite">On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Gaerfindel <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span>
      wrote:<br>
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            A correction: {netlh DIS law&#39; ret tIQbe&#39; yuQvam&#39;e&#39; tIQ,
            Sornganpu&#39; HuDnganpu&#39; lung&#39;a&#39;pu&#39; loDHompu&#39; je toq.}</blockquote>
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        jIyajbe&#39;.  jatlhlaH&#39;a&#39; lung&#39;a&#39;pu&#39;qoqvetlh?  &#39;ej toq &#39;Iv?<br>
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    In order:<br>
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    {lung} means &quot;lizard&quot; (KGT 218) so a {lung&#39;a&#39;} would be a &quot;great
    lizard.&quot;  {lung&#39;a&#39;pu&#39;} implies they&#39;re capable of language, so...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess I just don&#39;t recognise the original quite.  &quot;Tens of thousands of years ago, this ancient planet was not ancient, tree-dwellers, mountain-dwellers, (talking) great-lizards, and boys, [which is/are] inhabited (?)&quot;.</div>
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    I indicated that {yuQvam}, &quot;this planet,&quot; was the topic by adding
    the suffix {-&#39;e&#39;}.  Ergo this planet (Earth) is/was inhabited by the
    creatures I listed.  Given that I stated the topic in the previous
    sentence, I didn&#39;t think I needed to restate it in the second.<br></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>{toq} doesn&#39;t take an object.  The way you&#39;re written the sentence makes it look like it&#39;s being applied adjectivally to {Sornganpu&#39; HuDnganpu&#39; lung&#39;a&#39;pu&#39; loDHompu&#39; je}, which doesn&#39;t seem to be part of the previous sentence.  This is why I asked {toq &#39;Iv?} &quot;who (i.e., among the tree-dwellers, mountain-dwellers, talking giant-lizards, and boys) is/are inhabited?&quot;  That is, which of those nouns does (the apparent adjective) {toq} apply to?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Either the punctuation is incorrect (how does everything after the {tIQ} relate to the sentence before it?), or the sentence is missing something (maybe it should be {tIQbe&#39;taHvIS}?), and/or you mean something like {Dab} rather than {toq} (in which case the subject is the creatures and the object is the planet).  As written, I don&#39;t seem to be able to parse your sentence grammatically, although I think I now get the gist of what you&#39;re trying to say.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>De&#39;vID<br>
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