tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 02 12:36:14 1996
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Re: KLBC: Meditation
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Meditation
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 14:41:18 -0500
> navDaq nIHchaj qIv lan ghojwI'pu' wa'DIch, tor QublI'meH
> ghojwI'pu' ra'DI' ghojmohwI'. vaj poSchaj qIv lan.
trI'Qal writes:
>I'm not sure you can use <wa'DIch> this way; it means "first" as in, "my
>first weapon was a knife". I don't think you can use it like an adverbial
>like this. I'd yank it out, and let the <vaj> in the second part clarify
>tht this is a step-by-step process (if someone doesnt' tell me you can't use
><vaj> this way, too!)
One apparently does *not* use {vaj} this way. :-( See TKW page 5:
"Klingons are born, live as warriors, then die."
{bogh tlhInganpu', SuvwI'pu' moj, Hegh.}
There's no {vaj} used; the successive clauses simply follow one another.
-- Alan Anderson, professional programmer and amateur Klingonist