tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 29 20:06:07 1996
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Re: KLBC: naDev jIH tu'lu'
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: naDev jIH tu'lu'
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:08:40 -0500
~mark writes:
>...We have plenty of homophones
>already, even things like "Daba'" for "he definitely behaves" and "you
>watch it."
I don't often get to correct the Grammarian, so I savor this event.
{Daba'} is "he *obviously* behaves." The other possibility, "You sit it,"
is not quite grammatical. The example you are thinking of is {Dabej}.
{Darup} also works two ways: "He is ready to emulate her" or "you fine him."
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj