tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 28 11:30:36 1994
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Requesting help!
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Requesting help!
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 23:32:15 -0500
I would sooner die in battle than face uucp & Bill Willmerdinger over
"Requesting help!"!
uu> From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <ur-valhalla!cs.columbia.edu!shoulson>
>ngagh or nagh? I remember Capt. Krankor using nagh in HolQeD.....
uu> We had been using "nagh", because that's how we (at least I) heard it
uu> off the tape, and that's how it showed in my article about the new
uu> words in HoQeD. I've since heard that Okrand's saying it starts with
uu> "ng-" and not "n-".
Okay, noted for future reference.
>... SoSlI' Quch beQ law' SoSlI' 'etporgh beQ puS
uu> Guess not...
uu> Should be "porgh'et", if you're going to make a compound or noun/noun
uu> construction anyway. "Bodyfront"/body's front/front of body.
HIvqa' veqlargh! (Wait, that's being overused.... um...)
Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'!
>I wasn't willing to go so far as to write "wa'nem" as one word, mostly
>because numbers are chuvmey and not nouns. I got hit with "Only Okrand
>can do that" once, I really didn't want it again. (That's not to say I
>didn't *think* about doing it!)
uu> Yeah, but wa'leS, cha'leS, etc are all attested...
Yes, I noticed that. So we should feel free to use "nem" and "ben" in the
same fashion as "leS" and "Hu'". Okay, I can deal with that.
Qob
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