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Void where Prohibited



I haven't seen any mail off the List in about a week, so I hope this goes
through.  Amy West, if you see this, drop me a note in TREK or KLINGON,
please!

A friend asked me to translate the name of his point into Hol for him.  His
point is called "Void Where Prohibited", a nice joke in English.  But, do I
have a headache now!

First, I figured I had better "expand" those three words into a complete
sentence.  After much thought (and a few false starts in Hol) I think "It is
void where someone has prohibited it" is the best way to say it.

First obstacle:  no word for "void".  Okay, I decided to use "be illegal". 
First verb is {Hat}.  "Prohibit" is no problem: {bot}, expanded to
{botlu'pu'}

What do I do for "where"?  I thought {nuqDaq}, but even using the example from
Krankor's HolQeD article about "How can I own it?" gave me no help.

The section of TKD dealing with relative clauses says {-bogh} can mean "who,
which, where, and most commonly, that".  Okay, so I can use {-bogh}.

Hatbogh botlu'pu': Someone has probibited it where it is illegal.

Does this look like the correct way to go with this?  It *seems* to say what I
want, but that might be wishful thinking....

Qob
 
... Attention!  K'elvis has left the arena!  Disperse or die!



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