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Re: "mIvwIj lunIDta'bogh wej tu'lu"???



>Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 06:04:45 -0800 (PST)
>From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
>
>	qoror here.  Something just occured to me.  In HolQeD cha'maH, Krankor
>used the sentence "mIvmIj lunIDta'bogh wej tu'lu'," and something occured to me.
>"There were three who had stolen my helmet" is a markedly Terran sentence.  To
>quote N. Nicholas, it's "flaccid" and "ponderous," and the exact same meaning
>could be carried out with "mIvmIj lunIDta' wej."  
>	nuq boQub?

Probably.  I think I like it better myself.  But it's a style thing;
Krankor wrote it the way he wanted to.

~mark


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