tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 15 12:55:03 1996
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Re: "Kahless" story book
We don't have canon supporting ordinals as adverbs; even in English,
this use of "first" is something of a special case, that doesn't work for other
ordinals. How about this:
<<Birthright, Part II>> lablu'DI' lo'choHlu'.
When "Birthright, Part II" was transmitted, it began to be used.
Dave Yeung <[email protected]> writes:
\ >One thing I liked in the book (well, I liked the whole book and story;
\ >I'm not troubled over the language) is the "jinaq" amulet - the symbol of
\ >betrothal that Kahless and his beloved where. If you take the spelling to
\ >be jInaQ "I be full, whole, entire" it is a very nice token of betrothal.
\ >I don't know where he got the idea, but I'll give him credit for what is
\ >to me a very nice concept.
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\ <TNG episode "Birthright, Part II">Daq wa'DIch lo'lu'.
\ It was first used in the TNG episode "Birthright, Part II".
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\ Can wa'DIch be used adjectivally like this? Actually now that I look at
\ my sentence, it seems confusing to me. "The first was used..." The first
\ what? Can anyone tell me how to say "It was first used..."?
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\ dave yeung
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