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Re: [batlh Suvchugh vaj] ???

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• Subject: Re: [batlh Suvchugh vaj] ???
• Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 12:36:11 -0500

qaStaHvIS Hovjaj 95935.0 ghItlh QetaH:

>[batlh Suvchugh vaj] seems, to me, to mean: "if a warrior fights honor"
>
>I've tried to get it to say:
>
>   "If a warrior fights _with_ honor" or 
>   "If a warrior fights _for_ honor"
>
>but it doesn't seem to translate to either of these.
>
>What am missing?

{batlh} is also an adverbial word (look it up in TKD).  No real warrior would
fight honor; he fights *with* honor.  {batlh Suvchugh vaj} translates as "if
a warrior fights with honor".  The context should make it plain.  Another
reading could be "if a warrior fights honorably."

SuStel
Hovjaj 95937.5

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