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Re: questions, questions, and questions



At 21:40 3-12-95 -0800, you wrote:

>> 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".

Grrr... then why did I say it was wrong? <grin>
Don't you hate brains (and what they can do to you) sometimes...?

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