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RE: KLBC: Re: qoSwij

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: Re: qoSwij
• Date: Wed, 2 Apr 97 00:47:57 UT

jatlh peHruS:

> I am posing this as a question:  {yaH} means "be taken away."  Could we use
> this word to express "except for...."?  For example, yaHDI' wa' mu',
> mu'tlheghvam vIyaj.

I don't know about you, but I find that removing words from sentences makes 
things *harder* to understand!

You're not expressing "except for," you're using this phrase in a Klingon 
sentence.  There's no reason to believe that this sort of phrase would always 
work for every context.  Grammatically, your fine right now, though I disagree 
with the semantics.  But this doesn't mean that {yaH} always means "except 
for."

-- 
SuStel
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