tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 29 14:20:49 1996
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Re: --no subject--
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: --no subject--
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 17:21:03 -0400
In a message dated 96-06-29 17:14:03 EDT, you write:
> At 01:52 PM 6/29/96 -0700, someone posing as [email protected]
wrote:
>
> >********************************jabbI'ID
yImev******************************
> **
>
> Assuming you're using "jabbI'ID yImev" ( ~ "you stop transmission!") as
"End
> transmission" in the context of annoucing the ending of your own
> transmission, you might try something along the likes of "jabbI'ID 'e'
> vImev" (I stop the transmission) or "jabbI'IDwIj 'e' vImev" (I stop my
> transmission) or even "DaH jabbI'IDwIj 'e' vImev" (Now, I stop my
> transmission/I stop my transmission now)
>
> My grammar may certainly be in error, but I assume I'll have some
assistance
> getting it right shortly :)
Well, I happen to be on-line right now . . .
{jabbI'ID yImev} means "Stop the transmission!" It is a command. {jabbI'ID
'e' yImev} is ungrammatical. The {'e'} refers to the previous *sentence*,
not to a noun like {jabbI'ID}.
I'm not sure how appropriate {jabbI'ID yImev} is at the end of a message,
however. Who are you commanding? I would suggest the line used by Valkris
in Star Trek III: {jabbI'ID pItlh}.
SuStel
Hovjaj 96495.2