tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 15 07:48:31 1996
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Re: what did Dax say?
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:47:52 -0700
>From: Dave Yeung <[email protected]>
>> Admittedly, Dax's lines were very nebulous. The bits I picked out were
>> lu', 'ach jIH chImta'(or chImtaH) law'
>Is it possible that {chIm} has a meaning other than "be empty"?
>Paramount seems to like it. There was also {So'chIm}, in that episode
>where Worf keeps going to alternate universes, which supposedly meant
>"surrogate mother".
I think your second sentence is closer to the mark. Not so much that chIm
has another meaning, but that Paramount happens to like it. Like they like
apostrophes.
~mark