tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 11 08:40:50 1996
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Re: nabwIj - tlhIngan wo' batlh
On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> I don't know how much I trust it either, but FWIW it occurs in Krankor's
> Klingon Anthem ("...'ach Heghmaj yIpIHQo' ghaytan wa'DIch jagh'e'
> DIHeghmoHmo'"). So Krankor obviously likes it. This may or may not mean
> anything.
The Anthem predates a lot of our knowledge of Klingon, though. He also
uses lots (okay, a couple of) verb+ghach constructions, with no
intervening suffixes. Not that we've had any recent enlightenment of the
use of number+DIch. I think, though, that if Krankor were writing the
Anthem today, he'd do many things differently.
Hmm, I thought it was /wIHeghmoHmo'/. I'll look it up when I get home.
> ~mark
--Holtej