tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 29 08:15:57 1996
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Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:18:59 -0800
>From: "David Wood" <[email protected]>
>(Pardon the lack of accreditations; I wanted to get everything in one swell
>foop.)
>> Okay, I think I understand, so "Your tribble is dead" would be
>> *Hegh yIHlIj*?
>A wondrous thought popped into my head when I read that simple sentence. I
>rushed to my TKD and searched through it. Sadly, I could find no word resembling
>"delicious" or "tasty." Such is life. Two more for the wish list IAC...
Heh... Mentioned already, I believe, a loooong time back.
>>Why not using {-ta'} on the verb, i.e. the action of dying is over
>>(accomplished)?
>>{-ta'} "...is used when an activity was deliberately undertaken, the
>>implication being that someone set out to do something and in fact
>>did it." (TKD 4.2.7) That's not the case here, so {-pu'} is right.
>Then it could be <yiHlij vIHeghmoHta'>. Or even better yet, <_vISoppu'mo'_
>yiHlij vIHeghmoHta'>
Or use "HoH", though HeghmoH is also valid, IMO.
~mark