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Re: KLBC: Hoghvam






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qoranvo':

>> Two comments:  first, you seem to have mis-memorized "perhaps."  "Perhaps" 
>is
> 
>> <chaq>.  The word you are using (in the last line above) is <chay'>, "how."  
>
>
>HIja', "chay'" vIlo' vIneHpu'. "typo" 'oHbe'ba', tugh "chaq" vIlo'qa'mo'.


You've confused me.  Did you really want <chay'> ("how?") or did you really 
want <chaq> ("perhaps")?




>Ugh. I wanted that nifty double predicate thing... Lemme think a bit: 
>Could {Hol majatlhchuq} work? Yes, I know it looks like a wrong prefix,
>but I just follow an analogy:
>Hol qajatlh = SoHvaD Hol vIjatlh
>So, the person spoken to becomes an object, while 3rd person of the topic
>gets lost. Right? I know, it sounds shaky even to me... {{:^)


No, but I could live with <Hol maja'chuq> {{:)

>DalaDqangmo' qatlho'qu'qa'.

lu'!



>*QoweySa'* Dech "Slovenia" "Austria" "Hungary" "Serbia" "Bosnia/Herzegovina"
>"Montenegro" je. "Hungary" "South" 'oH. (This is very Klingon! {{:^) )

??? chay' tlhIngan 'oHqu'law' Dochvetlh'e'??


>Ugh. mISmoHlaHqu' Dochvam. 'ach vISovchoHlI'.

vaj maj!

I would suggest <yaj> instead of <Sov>, though.  "To understand" versus "to 
know."



--HoD trI'Qal




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