tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 02 15:24:57 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH
I'll see if I can get you all the paq'batlh uses tomorrow; can't access my transcript at the moment.
Would like to share what could be regarded as a fourth use of «meQ», though:
I've never seen it written down, but in the opening of the song from «qul tuq» in the Star Trek: Klingon game, I'm fairly certain they sing «'o meQ qul! 'o meQ chal!»
«meQ qul» is interesting to me; I'd long wondered if this was permissible.
After all, while we're used to fires "burning" in English, fires can not be burnt, mor can they be on fire, so we can't assume that they can «meQ». For a fire, "burning" is more or less synonymous with "existing".
Of course, it could well be that what's really meant is "the fire burns (that which touches it)", in the sense that «Soj meQ vutwI'», in which case this wouldn't be another use at all.
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From: Robyn Stewart [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 22:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH
To the best of my knowledge, I have cited all the canon sentences with ghor and meQ below. There may be something in the paq'batlh, which I have beside me, but lacking a concordance, it's hard to use it find usages.
- Robyn
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From: SuStel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: June 2, 2014 12:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH
On 6/2/2014 3:46 PM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> Something that IS on the syllabus are the words meQ and ghor, and I > want to tell the students how to use them.
>
> TKD would suggest that usage is:
> meQ veQ. – The garbage burns.
> veQ meQmoH loDHom. – The boy burns the garbage.
>
> But canon says:
> Ha’DIbaHmey meQ Sop.
> to’waQ meQ vutwI’
> meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH.
> pIpyuS DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS.
> pel’aQDaj ghorpa’
>
> Three completely different uses for meQ and two for ghor.
Have we ever seen {ghor} used to mean that the subject is broken?
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SuStel
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