tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 11 17:53:37 1996
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Re: vIttlhegh vImugh
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: vIttlhegh vImugh
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:53:09 -0500
>...I like the sound of {*yIbnav}, but it's not grammatical.
~mark writes:
>Why isn't it grammatical? I have "yIb" as a noun, as is "nav", making it
>a standard N-N compound.
When I put together my annotated dictionary, I seem to have miscopied
{yIb} as a verb -- probably because the entry immediately below "vent"
in the English-Klingon side of TKD is "verb". :-(
>Of course, a Paramount writer with an itchy apostrophe finger would just
>designate the Klingon word for Duct Tape to be M'gyv'r and have done with
>it.
(What's the smiley for "rolling eyes"? :-D)
-- ghunchu'wI'