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RE: KLBC: nuq



At 03:03 PM 11/20/96 -0800, you wrote:
>vIng HurghwI':

vIngbe' jIH jay'!

>>  What's wrong with the OTHER translation I offered which everyone has 
>>  ignored?
>>  DaH maHvaD Ha'DIbaHmeylIj HI'ang!
>>  "Show your meats to us now!"
>
>What's wrong is that it really should be {DaH maHvaD Ha'DIbaHlIj tI'ang}.  I'd 
>also (grudgingly) accept {DaH Ha'DIbaHlIj gho'ang}.

bIlugh. Doch mughbogh tera'ngan puj rur mu'tlhegh mughbogh jIH lujatlh.
'ach, qay 'oH Dochvam'e'. not jIlugh vIjatlh.

>Whether {Ha'DIbaH} is made explicitly plural is irrelevant.  There are 
>obviously going to be more than one (in the context), otherwise one would not 
>bother even uttering this sentence.  What I've changed, though is the verb 
>prefixes.  What you had written came out more like "Show me your meats to us 
>now."

DuHbogh ghu'mey law' tu'lu'. jIqar. nIvbe''a' 'oH?

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