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

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Rohan Fenwick <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr">Sorry to be a pain, but {pI-} is for when the object is second person singular - that is, singular &quot;you&quot;. {vIq pISam} is &quot;we find you battle&quot;. When the object is *third* person singular, the appropriate prefix is {wI-}: {vIq wISam} &quot;we find battle&quot;.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>qatlho&#39;! I need to keep working on my tlhIngan Hol, QeS! That was a bad one.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Also, the version with the {-meH} clause doesn&#39;t quite have the same meaning. It implies that the hoping will somehow be the cause of the event; that through hoping, we will be able to find battle. That&#39;s not really what you&#39;re after here.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, hope isn&#39;t a plan, and tul with -meH sounds like it means hoping will achieve the result.</div><div>One keeps hoping for different usage examples, though.</div><div><br>
</div><div>~&#39;eD </div><div>-- </div></div>My modeling blog:          <a href="http://bellerophon-modeler.blogspot.com/"; target="_blank">http://bellerophon-modeler.blogspot.com/</a><br>My other modeling blog:  <a href="http://bellerophon.blog.com/"; target="_blank">http://bellerophon.blog.com/</a><br>

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