tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 03 21:31:30 1995
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Re: questions, questions, and questions
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Jarno Peschier wrote:
> >1. Hung qorDu for 'Hung Family' or 'House of Hung' (where Hung is the
> > family name).
>
> Please, watch out for those ' characters. The ' is a letter in Klingon and
> the word for family is qorDu' and not qorDu. Futhermore in noun-noun
> constructs the possessor comes before the possessee (sp?). So "House of
> Hung" would imply qorDu' Hung. But I could be wrong on that last bit...
You are correct in that the possessor comes before the posessee, therefore
{Hung qorDu'} would be correct for "Hung's family" or "the family of Hung".
> >2. lurDech Suv for the equivalent of 'martial art or 'fighting tradition'
>
> This means "He fights the tradition", actually (if I'm right)...
bIlughbej.
> peSHIr
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