tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 12 10:07:47 1996
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Re: KLBC: Bible translation
>Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:33:20 -0700
>From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
>Seqramvo':
>\ >'ej joH'a' nIbtaH mu'
>\
>\ Interesting. I prefer this to pronoun-as-verb. This statement is too
>\ important and non-obvious to trust to that.
>Interesting indeed, but do we have any evidence that you can use {nIb}
>transitively? It's glossed as "be identical", not "be identical (to)".
>Without any supporting canon, I'd be more inclined to go with
>{'ej nIbtaH joH'a' mu' je}.
Good point. You're right, we don't know. We don't actually know if
*either* is right. Oh well.
~mark