tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 11 10:12:04 1995
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Re: Secret Santa
>Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 18:12:43 -0800
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>tlheghmeQ writes:
>>nobwI'lI' pegh jIH
>"I am your giver's secret." It's not quite what you want.
>{pegh} "keep something secret" is not a stative verb, and
>cannot be used like an adjective. I don't see an easy or
>simple way to express this using {pegh}. In order to get
>across the idea succinctly, I must rephrase it:
Not necessarily. "pegh" is also a verb, meaning "to keep a secret", and
apparently also a stative verb, meaning "to be secret". We have canon for
this, in the secrecy proverb "De' pegh Sovlu'DI' chaq Do'Ha'".
~mark