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Re: DaH vay' vIlarghlaH (was RE: mu'tlheghmey javDIch vImugh)



>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:43:20 -0800
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>
>On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:30:12 -0800 Steven Boozer 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There are four words that I can think of relating to smell (with the extant
>> canon):
>> 
>> He'  smell, emit odor (v.)
>
>toH! choqawmoHmo' qatlho'!
>
>"You smell like a targh."
>jaSHa' He' SoH targh je.
>
>Why didn't we think of this before?

It would have to be "SuHe' SoH targh je" wouldn't it?  If Klingon pronouns
were so different from English that "thou" + "other" didn't equal
"you-plural", Okrand would have said.

And simpler, once I saw the list Voragh supplied and remembered a word that
had slipped my mind:

targh pIw rur pIwlIj.

~mark


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