tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 30 14:36:08 1996
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Re: KLBC: naDev jIH tu'lu'
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>Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:10:17 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>~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."
HIvqa' veqlargh. I changed my example midstream from "Daba'" to "Dabej",
but only changed it in the explanation.
~mark
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